442 NOVELTIES. 



of the outer webs ; tbe four central tail feathers a warm, rich, 

 hair brown, with a trace of a faint ruddy glow in some lights ; 

 the two exterior pairs bright chestnut, with a broad conspi- 

 cuous traqsverse, somewhat oblique blackish brown band across 

 both webs, (which band by the way on the lower surface appears 

 a slatey grey) and a little brown towards their bases ; rest of 

 the tail feathers intermediate ; the chestnut diminishing, and the 

 black changing to brown and extending over a larger and 

 larger surface as the feathers approach the two central pairs. 



Megalaima incognita, Sp. Nov. 



Green ; lores and a very narrow frontal band, a small patch on nape, 

 and two small pectoral patches, dark crimson j chin, throat, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, forehead, stripe over eye tinged with turquoise blue; length 

 eight and three quarter inches ; wing three and three quarters. 



The above diagnosis will suffice, I believe, to distinguish this 

 pretty new species from all known members of the family. 



My specimens were obtained by Davison in the interior of 

 Tenasserim, about ^5 miles north of Yea, and again at Karope 

 -/ 'f$7, between Moulmein and Tavoy. 



rt-< (? r Nothing was noted as to either habits or voice to separate them 

 f ,/iy from our other common and closely allied Barbeis, M. asiatica 

 and Franhlini. In the same forests we obtained M. mysticoplia- 

 nos, Temm., not hitherto recorded from so far north, conspicuously 

 differing from the present species in its larger size, huge 

 and sharply pointed bill, and far richer and brighter coloring. 



A male of the present species measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 8*75 ; expanse, 12 - 75 ; tail, from vent, 2 - 62 ; wing, 

 3*75 ; tarsus, TO ; bill, at front, 0*93. 



The sexes are alike. 



As in M. oorti, Mull., a narrow ring of tiny bright yellow 

 feathers surrounds the eye. The lores and an excessively 

 narrow band from the lores to the culmen are deep crimson. 

 There is a patch of this 'same color, but rather lighter and 

 brighter in tint on the nape, and two similar but smaller patches 

 one on either side of the breast at the base of the neck. 



There is a narrow black superciliary stripe continued back- 

 wards over the ear-coverts, and a rather broader black band 



