10 Novelties. — Brymoipns Insignis. 



ei- ; towards the vent, on the flanks and lower tail coverts, 

 the ground color becomes almost pure white and the brown pow- 

 dering- very sparse, wliile the shaft stripes are reduced as on 

 the back and wing coverts to well marked dark lines. The 

 short dense tibial and tarsal plumes are brownish white, each 

 little feather with its dark central sliaft stripes. The axillaries 

 and wing lining are cream-colored, or yellowish white, entirely 

 unstreaked and unmottled. 



irpioiiKS |it.5.i()itis, Sp. Nov. 



Upper surface, moderately darh earthy broton. Wliole under-surfa,ce of 

 tail, wJiite^ Length, 6'65 inches Wing, 2'5 inches. 



This species is very similar in many respects to D. Itnfescei^s : 

 nobis, [Ibis, 1872, page 100,) and also to what I fancy I). 

 Sylvaticus (which I have never seen) must be ; but the adults 

 are distinguishable from all the other Brymoipl, with which 

 I am acquainted, by the whole under-siu'face of the tail appear- 

 ing white; the fa<3t is that the tip and the whole inner web for 

 about iin inch, to an inch and-a-half from this tip is white, both 

 above and below, and though the outer webs of the lateral 

 feathers are pale brown, on the lower surface these webs are 

 albescent. There is no tra<3e of any dark bar. 



Dimensions. — Only three birds (out of 13 specimens) and 

 these, unfortunately, all males, were measured in the flesh. These 

 vary as follows: Length, 6 to 6*4 inches; expanse, 7 inches; 

 tail from vent, 3 to 2*75 inches; bill, 0*5 to 0'55 inch; wing, 

 2.-45 to 2"55 inch; tarsus, 0-95 to 1 inch. 



Bescription. — Bill black, in some whitish on the gonys, 

 (close to the arelu) The legs fleshy brown, browner on feet, 

 and browner still on claws. Irides, brownish buff or yellow. A 

 streak fr^om the nostril over the ey-e, but almost obsolete above 

 the eye, yellowish white. Whole upper surface, brown, neither 

 very dark nor light, more earthy on the head and back, purer 

 on the quills and tail, and greyer on the ear-coverts, sides ot 

 the neck, and tips of some of the lesser wing coverts : the cen- 

 tral tail feathers are brown, of the same tint as the quills, but 

 slightly paler, distinctly but obsoletely barred, and no white tips ; 

 the lateral tail feathers have the outer webs brown, paling" rapidly 

 as the feathers approach the exterior of the tail, and quite albes- 

 cent on the two external feathers ; the tips are white and the 

 terminal inch to an inch and-a-lialf of the inner webs is white also ; 



