506 NOVELTIES. 



of the olive tinge, in one specimen none at all ; this is most mark- 

 ed on the upper tail-coverts, where also there is a faiut rufes- 

 cent tinge. 



From the nostrils a conspicuous broad fulvous buff streak 

 runs over the eyes and ear-coverts, and extends even a little 

 further back towards the nape; this is margined above by an 

 indistinct brown line, darker and purer brown than the crown ; 

 there is a dark streak through the upper part of the lores to 

 the eye and again behind the eye, involving the upper part of 

 the ear-coverts ; the lower part of the lores and the feathers 

 immediately below the eye a sort of fulvous buff; cheeks and 

 lower part of the ear-coverts more or less mottled brown and 

 fulvous or buff ; the quills and tail are rather pale hair-brown, 

 ■with, in the case of the latter, a barely perceptible rufescent 

 tinge ; all are margined on the outer web with dull olive, except 

 the first two or three primaries, which have the extreme margins 

 of the outer webs brighter and more albescent. 



The first primary is 0'92, the second - 3, and the third 

 0*08 shorter than the fourth. 



The throat and middle of the abdomen are fulve'scent white ; the 

 rest of the lower parts strongly tinged with fulvous buff, 

 slightly shaded on the breast, and more strongly so on the sides 

 with olive ; the lower tail-coverts, shoulder of the wing, and 

 wing lining clear buff or fulvous buff. 



The tibial plumes are brown at their bases, but broadly 

 tipped with fulvous buff. 



This species is perhaps most nearly allied to P. xantho- 

 dryas, Swinh. (P. Z. S., 1863, p. 296) ; but this appears to 

 be a larger bird, though, as in the case of so many of Mr. 

 Swinhoe's new birds, no detailed description has apparently yet 

 been published. 



Compared with true magnirostris, it is a bulkier bird, with a 

 somewhat shorter and much more rounded wing, with a much 

 longer 1st primary, and with paler and much larger and stronger 

 tarsi and feet ; the bill is considerably smaller; the upper surface 

 is not near so green, and the lower surface is tinged with fulvous 

 buff, instead of mingled green and yellowish. 



Compared with the true borealis, it has equally a much more 

 rounded and less pointed wing, and a much longer 1st primary, 

 much stronger and stouter tarsi and legs, and in what I take to 

 be the true borealis, following Mr. Brooks, the greater part 

 of the lower surface is a dull greyish white, not yellowish green 

 as in magnirostris. 



