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both above and below, and the thighs blue, of a-cobalt tint in certain 
lights ; all the primaries and secondaries fringed with white at their 
tips ; upper tail-coverts light cobalt-blue, with a broad bar of black 
at their tips; two centre tail-feathers cobalt-blue, broadly tipped 
with white ; the lateral feathers blue at their bases, to which suc- 
ceeds a broad band of black, beyond which they are snow-white ; 
bill and legs blood-red. 
Total length, 21 inches; bill, 12; wing, 73; tail, 143; tarsi, 12, 
Remark.—In size this fine new species is about equal to the Uro- 
cissa sinensis, but it differs from that and every other member of the 
genus in its stouter bill and in the blue colouring of the entire body. 
MEGAL&MA NucHALIS, Gould. 
Forehead dull olive ; immediately before the eye a small patch of 
red ; throat sulphur-yellow ; remainder of the cheeks, the ear-coverts, 
back of the neck, and a band across the lower part of the throat pale 
greenish blue, to which succeeds a band of red, separating the sulphur- 
yellow of the throat from the yellowish green of the under surface ; 
upper surface and tail green, with an obscure patch of red on the 
mantle ;_ primaries blackish brown, externally margined with green ; 
bill blackish horn-colour, except the base of the under mandible, 
which is sulphur-yellow ; legs olive-black. 
Total length, 7 in. ; bill, 17; wing, 41; tail, 22; tarsi, 1. 
Remark.—TVhis very distinctly marked species is about the size of 
Megalema asiatica. 
Picus rnsunaris, Gould. 
Male: forehead crossed by a narrow band of buff; crown of the 
head scarlet ; lores, cheeks, ‘sides of the neck, and throat white; a 
black line, commencing at the base of the lower mandible, passes 
down between the ear-coverts and the. throat, on to the sides of the 
chest, where it forms a broad patch ; flanks buffy white, strongly 
striated with black ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts 
rosy scarlet; mantle, shoulders, upper tail-coverts, and four middle 
tail-feathers black ; centre of the back white, crossed with irregular 
rays of black, as in Picus leuconotus ; wings black, spotted with white 
on both webs of the feathers, as in that species ; outer tail-feathers 
alternately barred with black and white ; bill bluish horn-colour ; 
tarsi and feet lead-colour. 
Total length, 91 inches; bill, 1}; wing, 52; tail, 34; tarsi, 3, 
Female like the male in every respect, except in having a black 
instead of a red crown. 
Remark.—This species is nearly allied to the Picus leuconotus, 
but is very distinct from that and every other member of the Picide 
I have yet seen; and it is certainly not included in the great work 
on this family of birds just completed by M. Malherbe. 
GEcINUS TANCOLO, Gould. 
Lores, a narrow band across the forehead, back part of the head, 
nape, and a stripe down the cheeks black; centre of the forehead 
