Novelties. — Stachyris niffrons. 479 



" Leng-th, 8"5 to 8\S -, expanse,, 11-7 to 12-75 ; tail, from vent, 

 3-8 to 4-05, wing-, 3-85 to 3-95 ; bill, from gape, U-97 to 1-03; 

 tarsus, 0-8 to 0-88. 



"' The bill is bluish, darker on the anterior half of the culmen 

 and at tip ; eyelids plumbeous ; irides reddish brown ; inside of 

 mouth bluish fleshy ; feet, pinkish brown, claws pale horny.'" 



I add a full description. 



The lores, cheeks, and ear coverts are white, with a faint greyish 

 brown tinge; forehead, top, and back of the head, pale greyish 

 brown ; the occipital feathers lengthened, and forming a pretty 

 full, moderately-pointed crest, as in Criniger faveolus. Back^ sca- 

 pulars, rump, and lesser wing coverts, dull olive green, with a 

 yellow tinge, but much duller and less yellow than in Jlaveoliis. 

 Upper tail coverts similar, but with a slight rufescent tinge, tail 

 feathers pale rufous brown, obsoletely barred darker, and mar- 

 gined on the exterior webs, with the same color as the upper tail 

 coverts. 



Greater and median coverts, pale, slightly rufous, brown, mar- 

 gined and tinged, more or less, with dull olive green ; quills pale 

 hair brown, the outer webs suffused with a slightly rufescent 

 olive^ very faint on the first two primaries, strongly marked on 

 the secondaries. The tertiaries are almost wholly of this rufes- 

 cent olive color ; chin and whole throat pure white; upper breast 

 chiefly white, but tinged here and there greyish, and intermin- 

 gled with feathers of the same color as the lower breast and 

 abdomen. These latter are a dull, pale, somewhat ochraceous, 

 yellow, more or less tinged on the flanks with dusky olive ; vent 

 and lower tail coverts, similar, but with a strong ochraceous tint. 

 Wing lining like the abdomen, but generally duller and with a 

 more or less rufescent tinge. Sides of the neck, pale grey. Inner 

 margins of quills, on lower surface of wing, tinged on their 

 basal portions, (extending in the secondaries nearly to the tips) 

 with very pale salmon colour. 



Stachyris rufifrons, iVov. 8^, 



Closely allied to S. nificeps, but smaller ; wing, 1-9 ; hill at front, O'S ; 

 tarsus, 0"67. The rufous of the head duller, and not extending to the 

 occiput. Upper surface wanting the strong greenish olive tinge, and 

 the lower surface, wanting the oil yellow tinge of ruficeps 



Amongst the birds sent me from the Pegu Hills by Mr, Oates 

 for the preparation of the paper already referred to, was a small, 



