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5. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. 

 By R. BowDLEii Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c.— No. 6 \ 

 On some Species of tlie Genus Dlgenea. 



[Received Ai^ril 3, 1888.] 



When arranging the MuscicapidcB belonging to the Hume Collec- 

 tion, I laid aside a specimen belonging to the genus Bigenea, which 

 a})peaied to me to be new to science, but which 1 did not like to 

 describe from a single skin. In the Tweeddale Collection, however, 

 I have found another example, and it is so evidently distinct that 1 

 no longer hesitate to give a name to the species. 



DiGENEA LEUCOPS, Sp. D. 



Adult. General colour above light olive-brown, with somewhat of 

 an ashy tinge ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series some- 

 what more ruddy brown externally ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally ruddy olive ; ujiper tail-coverts 

 ratlier more reddish brown than the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 externally reddish brown ; crown of head like the back ; a white line 

 across the base of the forehead, widening into a large supraloral spot ; 

 feathers about the eye washed with ashy grey ; lores ashy, as also 

 the feathers round the eye ; ear-coverts and cheeks ashy, washed 

 with olive ; throat white, the chin and a broad band on each side 

 of the throat black, continued downwards and forming a collar on 

 the fore neck ; chest and breast pale ashy, with a slight tinge of olive- 

 brown ; abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks olive-brown ; 

 thighs olive-biown ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills below dusky brown, white along the 

 inner web: "bill slaty brown ; feet white, tinged fleshy ; iris bright 

 dark brown" {R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay). Total length 4*3 inches, 

 culinen 0-4.5, wing 2'5, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-8. 



Hnb. Shillong {J. Cockburn : mus. A. 0. Hume) ; Karen-nee 

 (jR. G. n^ardlaw-Uamsay : mus. Tweedd.). 



At the time of writing the fourth volume of the ' Catalogue of 

 Birds,' I had not seen a specimen of Dlgenea submoniliger of Hume, 

 and I now propose to give a description of this species from the 

 series in the Hume Collection. 



DiGENEA SUBMONILIGER. 



Adult. General colour above light olive-brown, a little more ruddy 

 brown on the head ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater coverts 

 with a slight tinge of ruddy brown externally ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally olive-brown, 

 with a very slight ruddy tinge ; upper tail-coverts rufous ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, externally rufous ; base of forehead, lores, 

 eyebrow, and feathers round eye clear tawny buff" ; ear-coverts and 



' See P. Z. S. 1887, p. 470. 



