142 NOVELTIES. 



This species is closely connected with the green section of 

 the Hypsipetes, with Hemixus and lole, but it is, in my opinion, 

 closer on the whole to Iole, although no doubt the shape of the 

 feathers of the throat remind one more of Hypsipetes malac- 

 censis. The bill, however, is much slenderer. 



This species, of which only one specimen was obtained, was 

 shot in the neighbourhood of Malacca, and no colors of soft 

 parts recorded, but the bill appears to be a moderately dark 

 brown, paler on the lower mandible, and the feet appear to have 

 been a moderately pale grey brown. 



Rallina telmatophila, Sp. Nov. 



fflch olive brown, breast paler ; chin and throat, white ; wing lining, axil- 

 laries, and abdomen, flanks, and lower tail-coverts, black, broadly 

 banded with ivhite. 



Length. 90; wing, 5*35; tail, 30 ; tarsus, 1*7; mid 

 toe and claw, 1*66 ; bill at front, 1-2. 



The sex was not recorded, neither were the colors of the 

 soft parts, but in the dry skin the legs and feet are almost 

 black, and were probably deep green. 



The upper mandible deep brown, the lower mandible green- 

 ish horny. 



The entire upper plumage, visible when the wings are closed, 

 a very rich warm slightly olivaceous brown, almost precisely 

 the color of the back of a good dark specimen of Cinclus 

 asiatica, or a freshly-moulted specimen of Dumeticola affinis. 

 A paler brown line from the nostrils over the lores ; lores, cheeks, 

 and ear-coverts dull earth brown ; the bases of the feathers whit- 

 ish ; chin and throat pure white ; breast, a pale dingy slightly 

 olive brown ; entire abdomen, sides, flanks, axillaries, wing- 

 lining, lower tail-coverts, black, broadly banded with white ; 

 quills, with the inner webs brown, and on the lower surface the 

 basal portions with large white spots or imperfect bars not 

 extending to the shafts; the 3rd and 4th quills are equal 

 and longest. 



This bird is clearly closely connected with Rallina fasciat a, but 

 it has a longer bill, much more massive tarsi, green or black legs, 

 pure white chin and throat, no barrings on the upper wing- 

 coverts or outer webs of the quills, and it has the red every- 

 where replaced by olive brown. 



