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produce the effect of a somewhat purer color than on the back. 

 In certain lights the feathers of the lores are slightly and the 

 feathers surrounding the upper margin of the eye decidedly 

 a paler and purer blue. The abdomen is a dull pale brownish 

 grey, irregularly streaked with pure white owing to the bases 

 of the feathers showing through. Some of the vent feathers 

 and all the lower tail-coverts are pure silky white. The sides 

 and flanks are mingled dull slaty or brownish grey and white ; 

 the axillaries are bluish grey. The wing lining much the same 

 color as the head. Unfortunately the colors of the soft parts 

 were not noted. 



It is probable that the male is differently colored as in the 

 case of velatum. 



*301. — Stoporala melanops, fig. 



[Girbee, south of Tonka between 7 9 and 8° N. Lat.] 



This is another of the Indian forms which, it now appears? 

 extend into the northern portions of the Malay Peninsula. 

 Further south this is replaced by S. thalassoides. 



*304 B. — Cyornis frenatus, Sp. Nov. 



[Jurrum, Klang in Selangore.] 



We obtained two specimens of a Cyornis which might, primd 

 facie, have been thought to be males, but which proved on 

 dissection, (one of them dissected by Davison himself,) 

 to be females, in Selangore, in about 2° 30' N. Latitude. 



One was shot on the 11th August 1879, near Jurrum ; the 

 other on the 15th of February 1880, near Klang. These 

 birds belong, as far as I can judge, to no known species. 



They are what I should call typical Gyornis, that is to say, 

 that in the matter of bill, feet, wings, and tail, they correspond 

 precisely with Cyornis rubeculoides, and they are everywhere 

 dark blue above, and below everywhere more or less tinged 

 with the orange ferruginous, characteristic of the rubeculoides 

 section of this genus. 



The prominent feature of this new species is a broad pure 

 white streak from the point of the forehead to the upper 

 part of the eye, extending a little beyond the level of the 

 anterior angle of the latter. The greater part of the lores, at 

 any rate that portion immediately in front of the eye, is 

 black. The entire upper surface, including the whole visible 

 portion of the closed wings and tail, is a dark almost indigo 

 blue, a little paler and brighter on the lower back, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, and also perhaps on the wing-coverts, and 

 a little darker on the crown, but as a whole the colour is 

 extremely uniform, and there are no brighter lazuline spots 



