300 Novelties. — A new Gemts of the Malurinm. 



than in either of the other two species; a long well marked rufous 

 white^ or pale rufescent stripe from the nostrils to the nape ; lores, 

 slightly darker ; ear coverts again darker^ but not nearly so dark 

 as in Mandellii ; sides of the head behind ear coverts and nape, 

 olive brown^ margined more or less broadly on one web with 

 rufescent or buffy white; the occipital and nnchal feathers, a good 

 deal developed as in Mandellii, so as to form a sort of occipital 

 crest ; the whole of the rest of the upper surface olive brown, some- 

 what paler than in Mandellii ; the inner webs of all the quills 

 dark hair brown, and the outer webs cf the first few primaries 

 somewhat paler and yellower ; the wing lining rufescent white, 

 and the lower surfaces of the quills with a salmon colored tinge 

 on the inner webs as in Mandellii ; lower tail coverts, olive brown, 

 broadly margined with fulvous white ; the lateral tail feathers 

 very narrowly tipped with wliite. 



This species at a first glance might be mistaken for Mandellii ; 

 but it has a bill about half the thickness of that of this species, 

 and is quite unmistakeably distinct. 



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Blanfoedius. 



Allied to Suya. The tail of twelve feathers ; wings, with the fifth, 

 sixth, and seventh quills, equal and longest ; fourth, equal to eighth ; 

 third, nearly equal to ninth. 



Blanfordius striatulus, S^. Nov. 



Female. Dimensions, from the dry skin : length, about 6 ; 

 wing, 1*9; tail from vent, 2"75; bill at front, about 0'45; tarsus, 

 07. Legs and feet, pale fleshy; bill, brown pale fleshy on 

 lower mandible. 



Plumage ; an obscure rufous white streak from the nostrils 

 to the upper part of the eye. The whole upper parts, dull 

 greyish olive brown (the grey preponderating on the head), 

 all the feathers, except those of the upper tail coverts, con- 

 spicuously centred with dark brown. Wings, pale hair brown, 

 all the feathers margined with pale rufescent olive; tail feathers, 

 a sort of olive brown ; the feathers with conspicuously darker, 

 very stiff" looking and glistening shafts; all the feathers ob- 

 soletely transversely rayed, the central ones most strongly so; 



