446 . NOVELTIES. 



the contour of the feather. These feathers also are at times 

 more or less tinged with green. 



The female is very similar, but there is no crimson upon the 

 head, the whole of which is black; the yellow of the throat 

 and neck is duller and less pure, the whole upper surface is 

 slightly duller, and the lower surface is less tinged with green. 



One single female exhibits a remarkable peculiarity. In this 

 specimen from the posterior angle of the eye a regular narrow 

 pale yellow stripe runs backwards over the ear-coverts, divid- 

 ing these from the black of the crown and occiput and joining 

 into the yellow of the sides of the neck. 



No other specimen, male or female, shows any trace of this. 



Gampsorhynclius torquatus Hume. Pro. 

 A. S. B., May 1st, 1874 



Jie.tembl.es rufulus, but -is rather smaller, and has a slightly smaller bill. 

 The white of the head does not extend backioards beyond the crown, nor 



'■ that of the throat on to the breast. A deep rufous brown band 

 bounds the white of the head everywhere, being deepest and most con- 

 spicuous across the base of the throat, tchere it forms a regular and 

 most marked collar. 



The Tenasserim Gampsorhynchus appears to me to be quite 

 distinct from that which we obtain in Sikhim. It is a rather 

 smaller and brighter colored bird, and has a most conspicuous 

 torque, which I have never observed in the many specimens of 

 rufulus that I have procured. 



Our specimens were obtained on the banks of the Youn- 

 zaleen below the Pine forests in the Salween district. 



A male measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 9'5 ; expanse, 1T25 ; tail, from vent, 4*7 ; wing, 3*75 ; 

 tarsus, 1*05 ; bill, from gape, 0*95; bill, at front, 0*75 ; weight, 

 1*3 oz. 



The lower mandible, gape, and edges and tip of upper man- 

 dible pure fleshy white ; the rest of the upper mandible pur- 

 plish brown ; legs, feet and claws fleshy white with a blue tinge; 

 irides bright yellow. 



The forehead and anterior half of crown, lores, orbital region, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, chin and throat pure white ; the white is 

 everywhere bordered by a band of deep brownish red, very 

 deep and brown across the base of the throat, where it forms 



