318 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



In the dry skin, the greater part of the bill and cere are 

 blackieh horny, but the culmen and the tips of both mandibles 

 are pnle yellowish horny. The bare portion of the feet appears 

 to have been green. The claws, which are extremely small for 

 the size of the bird, brown, paler and more fleshy at their bases. 



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Republications. 



Trichastoma leucoproctum, Tweed. 



Female. — Above olivaceous ruddy brown, more rusty at the 

 tips of the upper tail-coverts, greyish on head, a tinge of pale 

 rufous on a narrow frontal band, passing to the pale lores. 

 Two centre tail feathers umber brown. The three outer tail 

 feathers edged pure white on the inner web, the extent of white 

 edging increasing inwards, until the whole inner web of the 

 antepenultimate feather is white, while the fourth is broadly 

 edged white for nearly its whole length on the opposite or outer 

 web ; shoulder of wings rusty olive ; the primaries dull rusty 

 brown ; blotch of white on the upper breast, which is dull pale 

 olive brown, fading into the pure white of the under tail-coverts ; 

 wing rounded ; first primary half the length of the second, 

 which is quarter inch less than the third ; fifth the longest ; 

 tarsus and feet moderately strong for this group. 



Length about 6| inches ; wing, 3 - 5 ; tail, 3 - ; tarsus, 0'9 ; bill 

 at front, 0-63. 



Legs and feet grey ; irides dark brown. 



Bab. — Base of the Mooleyit range, Tenasserim. Obtained 

 by Mr. Assian Limborg.— P Z. S., 1877, 366. 



[Marvellous as it may seem that the Marquis of Tweeddale 

 should fall into such an error, there can I think be little doubt 

 that this supposed new species is merely the female of my 

 Muscitrea cyanea, S. F.,V., 101, June 1877, re-described as 

 JSiltaw leucura by Lord Tweedaale, A. & M. N. H., August 

 1877, 95 ; (see also S. F., VI., 207). I have never seen the 

 female Muscitrea cyanea, nor have I seen the supposed 

 T, leucoproctum, but the dimensions, colour, arrangement of whit© 



