NOVELTIES. 441 



Macropygia assimilis, Sp. Nov. 



The Tenasserim Cuckoo-dove appears to me to be quite dis- 

 tinct from the Javan ru/lceps, Temm., with which it has hitherto 

 been identified. The back of the neck and interscapulary region 

 are dark brown, with scarcely any perceptible metallic gloss. 

 The breast is conspicuously mottled with dark brown, the chin 

 and throat are pale rufescent white. 



The following are the dimensions and a description of a 

 specimen killed in the Tenasserim hills north-east of Moul- 

 in em : — 



Length, 12 ; wing, 5 7 ; tail, from vent, 6 ; tarsus, 0'83 ; bill, 

 at front, - 57 ; bill, from gape, 0*8. 



The entire cap chestnut, paling on the forehead, a little mottled 

 here and there with dark hair brown owing to the basal 

 portions of the feathers showing through ; chin and throat 

 rufescent white, palest on a broad line along the middle ; 

 entire loAver surface dingy rusty chestnut, conspicuously 

 mottled, more or less in longitudinal rows of spots, with dark- 

 brown on the breast, with a more or less olivaceous tinge on 

 the centre of the abdomen, and becoming brighter and purer 

 chestnut on the tibial plumes and lower tail-coverts ; axillaries, 

 a large portion of the inner webs of the quills, and entire wing 

 lining (except the tips of the primary lower greater coverts 

 which are hair brown) bright, pure, chestnut. 



Sides and back of the neck hair brown, the feathers with a 

 very narrow terminal freckled albescent or buffy fringe ; inter- 

 scapulary region deep hair brown ; rump the same, but all the 

 feathers suffused towards their tips with a deep ruddy tinge ; 

 upper tail-coverts like the rump, but most of them with a 

 well marked though narrow rusty chestnut tipping ; scapulars 

 like the back, but the outer ones, except the longest, very 

 narrowly tipped with chestnut ; wings hair brown ; coverts 

 and primaries very deep brown, in places almost black ; 

 lesser coverts broadly, median coverts moderately, greater 

 coverts narrowly, tipped with a rich ruddy chestnut. First 

 primary very narrowly edged on the outer web with pale 

 rufous ; second to fourth primaries similarly margined at the 

 sinuations ; secondaries narrowly tipped with ferruginous chest- 

 nut, and with a trace of the same along the margins of parts 



