RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIEs. 493 
spotted with red ; rather oval in shape ; measuring 0:66 by 0°5. 
A second nest was placed in the thick foliage of a moss grown 
fir tree, and was about 7 feet above the ground. It was simi- 
larly composed to the other nest, but the eggs were rounder 
and plain white, without any spots.—J. A. S. B., 1872 
p. 328. : 
Anorhinus Austeni, Jerd., Ibis., 1872, p. 6. 
[I can find no satisfactory description of this species ; Dr. 
Jerdon, says :]|—“ Its nearest ally is B. Tickelli of Tenasserim, 
but it differs conspicuously from that by its white-tipped tail 
feathers.” 
Major Godwin-Austen, who originally seemed to have iden- 
tified it with 4. galeritus, Tem. says :— 
“The whole of the upper parts of a pale slaty grey, having 
in certain lights a greenish tinge ; throat and sides of neck, white ; 
dull rufous on the breast and belly, thighs and under-tail 
coverts primaries ;” (and ? lateral tail feathers) “ greenish black, 
tipped and barred white; a white spot formed by the tip of the 
outer wing coverts; the base of the primaries being also of 
this color ; secondaries, edged whitish ; tail, tipped white ; centre 
feathers, same color as the back; bill, yellowish white. 
Length, about 31 inches; wing, 13; tail, 13; bill to gape, 
4°5 ; depth 2.” 
[The inexplicable part of this business is that Mr. Gray is 
said to have considered this as perhaps the young of Rhinoplax 
scututus, while Dr. Jerdon originally identified it with galeritus. 
It is impossible to understand how any horn bill, nearly allied to 
Tickelli, could be considered the young of scutatus. | 
Prionochilus vincens, Sclater. 
Male.—Length, 415; tail, 12; wing, 2-3; tarsus, 0"5; 
mid toe with claw, 0"5; hind toe 025 ; bill to gape, 0’-45, at 
front, nearly 0"4. Third primary, longest, only slightly longer 
than second. 
Description.—Iris, reddish ; bill, upper mandible, black ; 
lower mandible, lightish at the base ; legs and feet, blackish 
brown. 
Entire head (except the chin and throat), hind neck, 
back, rump, and lesser wing coverts, dull steel-blue, palest on the 
rump, and with the bases of the feathers, dark ; quills, blackish 
brown ; the basal portion of inner webs, with the under wing 
coverts, white ; tertiaries, greater wing coverts and_ tail, black ; 
—the former edged with the hue of the upper surface, the latter 
