280 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES, 



I have since obtained a really good specimen which has 

 convinced me that it is distinct, and I wish to take this oppor- 

 tunity of characterizing it. 



TURTUR HUMILIOR, sp. TiOV. 



Length, 9 ; wing, 5*6 ; tail, 3-3 ; bill, at front, (from 

 where the feathers end), 055 ; tarsus, 075. 



? Female. — Head greyish-brown, paling on forehead ; rump 

 deep slatey ; rest of upper parts, breast and middle of abdomen 

 brown, with a broad black half-collar on the back of the neck, 

 and a more or less vinaceous tinge on the lower parts ; wing- 

 lining, sides, and flanks deep slaty-grey. 



I had no specimens to compare it with, so sent it to Mr. 

 Brooks. He remarks : lt I have never seen any dove like the 

 Andaman one you have sent. 



"Its characteristic points are — (1,) the broad collar; (2,) (and 

 the most important) the dark slate coloured wing-lining ; (3,) 

 the very brown hue. Its wing is much longer than that of T. 

 liumilis $? which has a pale wing-lining and is quite a different- 

 ly toned bird. It is of similar size to T. cambayensis, but has 

 a much longer wing. It is very much smaller than £> risoria, 

 which has a light wing-lining, and the brownest risoi*ia is quite 

 pale compared with this dusky Andaman Dove." 



I hope to figure this sombre little Dove later ; in the mean 

 time this will serve to call attention to it. — Pro. As. Soc, Decem- 

 ber 1874. 



Eurycercus cinerascens, Walden. 



Chin, throat, breast, cheeks, and under carpal -coverts almost 

 pure white ; remainder of lower surface of body white, faintly 

 washed with ashy grey, the flanks being dark ashy grey ; a 

 distinct white ring round the eye, formed by the minute 

 feathers of the eyelids ; above ashy olive, each feather, except 

 these of the uropygium, boldly centred with brown ; upper 

 surface of the rectrices ashy olive like the back, the middle pair 

 with a narrow dark brown central line on each side of the 

 shaft ; no striations or terminal marks on the rectrices ; upper 

 surface of the wing, when closed, ashy olive like the back, the 

 Secondary coverts being centred with brown ; inner edges of 

 the basal portion of the quill-webs underneath white, passing 

 into tawny on the tertiaries. The tail consists of very broad 

 feathers much graduated ; legs (in dried skin) brown. 



Wing, 2 inches ; tail, 325 ; bill, from nostril, 028 ; tarsus, 

 0*75. Described from an example of a male obtained by Surgeon- 

 Major Day at> Dobri, Lower Bengal, on the 27th November 

 1873.— A. 8f M. N. H., 1874, No. 80. 



