Novelties. — Myioplwnens Fjugmiei. 475 



slvinning'; the whole of the feathers may be raised from the occi- 

 put to the i liter scapulary region, without meeting' with one red 

 feather. It is common enougli to meet with specimens from 

 Malacca which being- skinned^ and dried in much the same position 

 that Mr. Sharpe has figured the species, show no apparent red 

 collar, but on lifting the feathers, it is always apparent enough, 

 but in these Pegu birds it is absolutely wanting. Temminck's 

 figure pi. col, 277, shews the broad red collar as it really is, and 

 Horsfield^s original description (Trans. Lin. XIII., p. 175,) 

 equally clearly shews that this rufous collar is a characteristic of 

 the true pulchella " capiie fuseo hadio, vertice azureo," only the 

 vertex being ,blue. This absence of the red collar which is con- 

 stant in every specimen of pulchella that I have seen, and the 

 ■conspicuous difference in the plumage of the female which is 

 unlike that of any female pulchella I have met with, lead me to 

 consider that the Pegu birds majr be properly separated. 



Mr. Oates gives the following particulars : 



" I found and shot a pair of these birds in the evergreen 

 forests ; the latitude of Thayetmyo must certainly be its extreme 

 northern limit. The dimensions of the fresh birds were as 

 follows : 



"Female; length, 9-1 ; expanse, 13-5 ; tail, from vent, 3 ;T--^^ . 2. o v^,,^,^^ 

 wing, 3'5 ; bill, from gape, 2*05 ; tarsus, 0"62. 



"Male-, length, 9-1; expanse, Vl'% ; tail, from vent, 3*3 ; -7'- g3,?a\ 

 wing, 3'3 ; bill, from gape, 1*98 ; tarsus, 0-61. 



" Th^ bill bright red ; inside of mouth somewhat paler red ; eye- 

 lids and orbital region, pale salmon red ; iris, yellowish white ; 

 legs, greenish brown ; claws, horny. 



"These birds were shot on the 28th April, and dissection showed 

 that they would soon have bred.^^ 



Myiophoneus Eugenei, S^. Nov. 



Biinilar to Temminckii, but bill larger and deeper, nearly entirely yellow, 

 and no lohite spots at the tips of any of the coverts in either sex at 

 any age. 



Mr. Eugene Oates and myself purport at an early date to 



present as exhaustive a paper as possible on the birds of Thayet- 

 myo and Upper Pegu generally, founded on his collection, on 

 Capt. Fielden^s collection, on some birds obtained for me by a 

 friend at Thayetmyo, and on notes recorded by Capt. Fielden 

 and Mr. Oates. In examining the numerous specimens thus placed 



