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elegans, Ti'ckelUa (which is the same as Jerdoni), rujicauda, 

 and magnirostris, and with the male of pallipes. Of this latter 

 species I have no ascertained female, and I am not aware 

 whether the female differs from the male ; but it cannot be the 

 female of this species, as, letting- alone the fact that this latter 

 has only been obtained on the Nilghiris, our present bird is 

 altogether smaller. 



The following are the measurements from the dry skin: — 



Length, 5*25 ; wing, 2*9 ; the 3rd and 4th primaries equal, 

 the 5th slightly shorter, the 2nd, 0*3, and the 1st, 1*4 shorter 

 than the longest ; the 3rd quill is, therefore, slightly longer 

 than in typical Cyornis ; tail, from vent, 2*0 ; bill, at front, 045 ; 

 tarsus, 0*6. 



The legs and feet were apparently very pale fleshy or pinkish 

 white ; the upper mandible blackish brown, paling just at the tip ; 

 the lower mandible pale yellowish horny. 



The lores, a ring round the eye, and a patch at the base of the 

 lower mandible white ; the rictal and nareal bristles black ; the 

 forehead, crown, occiput, cheeks, ear-coverts, and nape brown ; 

 the mantle, rump, and upper tail-coverts also brown, but more 

 and more tinged with rufous as they approach the latter, which 

 are a decided rufous brown ; wings hair brown, darkest on the 

 primaries, the second of which has a barely perceptible whitish 

 margin to the outer web ; all the secondaries, tertiaries, and 

 their greater and median coverts margined with pale ferruginous 

 on their outer webs ; tail hair brown, the feathers tinged on 

 their outer webs towards the bases with the same rufescent 

 brown as the upper tail-coverts ; an indistinct pale brown 

 streak runs down on either side, dividing the white patch at the 

 base of the lower mandible from the white medial portion of 

 the chin and throat; the breast, sides, and flanks are pale brown, 

 more or less margined and streaked with pale rufous buff; 

 the wing lining and axillaries and the inner margins of the 

 quills towards their bases pale rufous buff; the abdomen, vent, 

 and lower tail-coverts white ; the tail is even ; the tarsi and feet 

 are perhaps slightly slenderer than in elegans ; the bill is a 

 great deal broader than in that species, almost exactly the same 

 size as in Tickellia. 



In many respects this new species resembles magnirostris, but 

 has a considerably smaller bill. It is just possible that my 

 original surmise may prove correct, and that all these birds 

 maybe females; if so, it is to be hoped that the attention 

 thus drawn to this species may lead to the discovery of the 

 •male. 



