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generally lighter and brighter chestnut plumage of the Pegu 

 race of phteoceps. A bird absolutely inseparable from some 

 specimens from the Doon, the Nepal Terai, and Dacca, as well 

 as from others from Pegu and Northern Tenasserim. 



*289 ter A. — Philentoma intermedius, Sp. Nov 



[Foot of Gunong Pulai, Jphore.] 



The wings fall short of the tail by more than the length of the 

 tarsus. The second primary is considerably shorter than the 

 secondaries, but the third is not equal to the latter ; it is so 

 in velatum, but in both pyrrhopterum and the present species 

 it is longer than these latter. The wing is rounded ; the 

 distance between the primaries and the secondaries is not 

 so great as the culmen. There is no doubt, therefore, that this 

 should be classed as a Philentoma, which it resembles in 

 every respect, even to the masses of fluffy flank feathers, except 

 in having a proportionally somewhat longer and narrower bill 

 than either of the two previously known species. 



Only a female has been procured, which was shot at the 

 foot of Gunong Pulai in Johore, at the extreme south of 

 the Malayan Peninsula on the 6th March. 



This female is quite of the same type as the female of 

 velatum, but is much smaller and altogether of a different 

 blue, viz., exactly the same blue as that of the head, neck, 

 and throat of the male P. pyrrhopterum, between which and 

 velatum it thus, as it were, forms a link, so far as tint of 

 plumage is concerned. 



The specimen is a very good one and a perfect adult. The 

 following are the dimensions : — Length, 6* ; wing, 3*18 ; 

 tail to insertion of feathers, 2*7 ; bill from gape, 0*88 ; bill from 

 frontal bone straight to point, 0*8 nearly ; tarsus, 068. 



The exposed portion of the 1st primary is 097, the 2nd 

 primary exceeds the 1st by 0*84 ; the 3rd primary exceeds 

 the 2nd by 0-65 ; the 4th exceeds the 3rd by about 0'07 ; 

 the 5th and 6th are nearly the same length ; the 6th a hair's 

 breadth the longest. 



The entire head, including forehead, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, 

 ear-coverts, sides of the neck, back, wing-coverts and breast, a 

 dull pale grey blue, just the color of the throat in good 

 specimens of adult male P. pyrrhopterum ; the rump greyer, 

 and a few of the under feathers whitish ; upper tail-coverts 

 the same color as the back ; quills and tail brown, but the 

 outer webs of all the feathers, and both webs of the tertiaries 

 suffused with the same color as the back. I say the back, because, 

 although the color of the head and the back are much the 

 same, the feathers on the head are closer set, and therefore 



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