510 NOVELTIES. 



I notice also that in the females the black moustachial stripe is 

 very distinctly shot or tinged with green. 



One female, I should mention, exhibits a trace of the dark 

 bounding line on the back of the neck. 



These birds lay in March, and the young are fit to be caged 

 in April ; and these ten specimens, shot in February and the 

 end of January, are in most perfect plumage. 



A fine male measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 18 ; expanse, 17*5 ; tail, from vent, 11*9 ; wing, 

 5-9 ; tarsus, 055 ; bill, from gape, 07 (another was only 0'65) ; 

 and weight 3 ozs. 



• The ' upper mandible was orange vermilion (in another 

 vermilion) ; its tip and the lower mandible yellow ; the legs and 

 feet a dingy green ; the claws bluish horny. 



A female measured : — 



Length, 1475; expanse, 17-35 ; tail, from vent, 8 '5 ; wing, 

 5*8 ; tarsus, 0-66 ; bill, from gape, nearly 0'8. 



These birds were obtained chiefly in the neighbourhood of 

 Kollidoo at elevations of from 3,500 to 5,000 feet, and in their 

 habits appear to differ in no way from those of their nearest 

 congener P. schisticeps. 



Cyornis Mandellii, Sp. Nov. 



Lores and a ring round the eye tvhite; above brown, tinged rufescer.t, 

 especially on rump, basal -margins of tail feathers, outer margins 

 of secondaries, tertiaries, and their coverts; chin, throat, abdomen, and 

 lower tail-coverts pure white; breast olive brown, feathers faintly 

 margined fulvous ; legs and feet fleshy white- 



I have long had by me a Cyornis, which Mr. Mandelli 

 gave me to describe soon after it was shot in October 1872, 

 when it was obtained at a low elevation in native Sikhim. I 

 have hitherto refrained from describing it, believing it to be 

 the female of some blue male ; but as Mr. Mandelli has procured 

 two more precisely similar specimens from the same locality, 

 and believes that the sexes are alike, I think it best to give 

 the bird a name, and describe it, the more so that two years' 

 waiting has thrown no additional light upon the subject. 



I may commence by premising that it has been carefully 

 compared with a series of both sexes of unicolor, rubeculoides, 



