508 NOVELTIES. 



The following are measurements taken from the skin : — 

 Length, 4 to 425 ; wing, 2*7 ; bill, at front, 055 to 0'6 ; 

 tarsus, 7 to 0*8 ; tail, from vent, 14. 



The forehead, crown, and sides of the occiput light ferruginous ; 

 entire back, rump, upper tail-coverts bright yellowish olive 

 green; quills and tail feathers hair-brown, palest on the tail 

 feathers, which have a pretty conspicuous subterminal dark band, 

 and all margined and more or less suffused on the outer webs 

 with the same color as the back ; a dull white ring round the 

 eye ; lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts greyish white ; shoulder of 

 the wing, wing lining, sides, flanks, and lower tail coverts bright 

 gamboge yellow ; tibial plumes golden fulvous ; chin, throat, 

 breast, abdomen, silky white, only a little greyish mottling on 

 the upper part of the breast, where the feathers are deranged 

 and the bluish dusky basal portions show through. 



Hemixus Hildebrandi, Sp. Nov. 



Precisely similar to Hemixus flavala, Hodgs., but slightly larger, and 

 with forehead, crown, and occiput black. 



This pretty new species, the Black-capped Golden-winged 

 Bulbul, was obtained by Mr. Davison on the banks of the 

 Younzaleen, in the Sal ween District of the Tenasserim Provinces, 

 on the outskirts of the Pine Forests, at an elevation of about 

 3,000 feet. 



It bears to H. flavala the same relation that Spizixus semitor- 

 ques does to 8, cinereicapillus ; no separate description seems 

 necessary. 



The following are the dimensions recorded in the flesh of 

 a male : — 



Length, 8*75; expanse, 12*7; tail, from vent, 3*8; wing 

 4*12 ; tarsus, 06 ; bill, from gape, 1 ; weight, 125 oz. 



The irides were crimson; bill black; legs and feet dark 

 reddish horny. 



Beyond the slight excess in size that these figures sufficient- 

 ly indicate, the only other point of difference that I can 

 discover consists in the entire cap being black instead of grey, 

 as in H. flavala. 



The only other Hemixus with which I am acquainted is 

 H. castanonotus, Swiuhoe, Ibis, 1870, pi. XI., Fig. 1. 



