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in the tail, &c., leave, I think, no possible doubt that this latter 

 is the female of the former. 



But this raises a fresh question. My name was only actually 

 published on the 17th June, though it had been written months 

 previously. The Marquis of Tweeddale's paper was received in 

 the Zoo, on the 14th April, but when was the number containing 

 it actually published ? So far as I can make out not till 

 August, but this Dr. Sclater can tell us. — A. O. H.] 



Chrysococcyx limborgi, Tweed. 



Description. — Above fine rich purple, with steel reflections ; 

 wings and tail the same, somewhat darker ; throat and breast 

 same as the back ; two outer tail-feathers with a similar white tip, 

 and four spots on the outer web of the last, with a short white 

 streak on the inner web opposite each spot, the two together 

 having a tadpole-like outline ; lower breast and vent white, 

 the feathers broadly barred with green and purple, and over- 

 lapping, form a succession of regular bands ; the bars on the 

 under tail-coverts are broader and of a stronger purple tint ; 

 under surface of wing white at the inner base of the primaries 

 and secondaries, forming a narrow white bar inside the wing ; 

 a pure broad white crescentic collar on the lower nape, com- 

 mencing low down on the side of the neck; bill yellow ; legs 

 rich green ; irides red, and a bright crimson orbital skin. 



Length about 6 inches ; wing, 4 ; tail, 3'1 ; tarsus, 0*6. 



Hab. — Base of Mooleyit range, Tenasserim. 



This species (which, while closely allied to, differs from, 

 C. ocanthorhynchus, Horsf., by having a broad white nuchal 

 collar) was discovered by M. Assian Limborg under the Mooley- 

 it range, east of Moulmein, in January of the present year — 

 P.Z. S., 1877,366. 



Prinia poliocephala, A. Anderson. 



Similis P. stewarti, et fronte cinerea pileo concolori, sicut in 

 hac specie ; sed dorso brunneo nee cinereo diversa ; rostro nigro ; 

 pedibas pallide brunneis, iride pallide flavida ; palpebris pallide 

 slramineis. 



Long, tot, 3"8; culminis, 0*45 ; alse, T7 ; caudae, 1*8 ; tarsi, 

 0-8. 



Hab. — Kumaon, Bagesur Valley, 3 — 4,000 ft., 18th June. 



