480 Novelties. — Calornis TyilerL 



and typical Sfachyris marked ruficeps. It is^ however^ a very 

 different bird from ruficeps of which I have a fine series from 

 different parts of the Himalayas, and I therefore name it as 

 above. 



The following are the dimensions : 



Length, 4" 5 ; expanse, 6 ; tail, from vent, 1'95 ; wing, 1'9 ; 

 bill, from gape, 0*56 j tarsus, 0'67. 



The bill is blue ; the inside of the mouth flesh color ; irides 

 deep red ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs, fleshy brown ; claws pale 

 horny. 



Lores and a streak over, but not extending beyond, the eye 

 pale mouse brown. Forehead and anterior half of crown, pale 

 brownish rufous ; occiput, nape, and the rest of the upper surface 

 pale brown, with a very faint olivaceous tinge on the occiput, 

 back, and rump. Upper tail coverts, just perceptibly more 

 rufous ; inner webs of primaries, pale hair brown ; outer webs 

 and tail, very pale brown with a scarcely perceptible olivaceous 

 tinge. Chin and centre of throat white, the feathers just per- 

 ceptibly dark shafted ; the rest of the throat, cheeks, ear coverts, 

 and the rest of the lower surface, dull, pale, slightly fulvous 

 brown ; if raised, it will be seen that only the terminal one-third 

 of the feathers are of this color, above this they are albescent and 

 the basal portions are dusky. The wing lining and axillaries are 

 very pale grey, or greyish white. 



This bird is quite a typical Stmhyris, and though answering 

 well, so far as mere description goes, to Jerdon^s description of r??^'- 

 ceps is, when compared with that bird, altogether different in ap- 

 pearance. 



Mr. Oates remarks, " I met with only one specimen in brush- 

 wood in a nullah, on the dry western slopes of the Pegu Hills.^' 



Calornis Tytleri. S^, Nov. 



Long ago my late friend Col. Tytler, to whose memory I have 

 dedicated this species, gave me a note in regard to the Andaman 

 Calornis to the following elTect : 



" During my stay at the Andamans, 1 obtained a specimen of 

 Calornis which I then considered to be C. affinis, the same as the 

 Burma bird, and I even wrote to Calcutta saying this, and send- 

 ing the adult bird I had procured. Since this, thinking over 

 and trjdng to remember all I could about this Andaman bird, 

 I felt assured that it belonged to a different species. From what 

 I could recollect it was darker, and the bill also was considerably 



