282 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



A narrow frontal band and lores black, extending both over and 

 below the eye to base of the ear-coverts ; beueath ashy blue, 

 with a vinous brown tinge upon the lower breast and abdomen ; 

 bill black ; legs horny brown ; irides ? 



Length, 9 -5 inches ; wing, 4'1 ; tail, 4'85 ; tarsus, 1*3 ; bill, at 

 front, 0-75. 



I shot two specimens of this very beautifully but subdued- 

 colored Sibia in April last, when making the ascent of the Peak 

 of Khunho, Eastern Bur-rail Range, Naga Hills, at about 8,000 

 feet. The bird appeared pretty numerous, in companies of 

 four to six or eight, haunting the tops of the rhododendron^ trees, 

 then in full bloom, busily engaged searching for insects in the 

 flowers, and their forehead, chin, and throat were covered thick 

 with the pollen. 



In the general distribution of the coloration and form it 

 resembles S. gracilis, extremely common in the same locality, 

 but seldom seen there above 6,000 feet. — A fy M. N. II. 



Pomatorliinus ochraceiceps, Walden. 



Lores black ; ear-coverts brown, washed with ochreous ; 

 supercilium (commencing at the base of the maxilla and reach- 

 ing to the sides of the neck), chin, cheeks, throat, breast, and 

 shoulder-edge pure unsullied white ; crown and nape bright 

 ochreous ferruginous ; back and upper tail-coverts ochreous 

 olive ; wings, when closed, ochreous brown ; middle rectrices 

 brown, washed with ochreous, remainder, with outer webs, 

 coloured like the middle pair ; inner webs pure brown ; the 

 terminal portion of all the rectrices hardly tinged with ochreous ; 

 abdomen, flanks, thigh, and under tail-coverts ochreous brown, 

 the ventral region exhibiting a brighter ferruginous tint ; bill 

 yellow, probably red in the fresh skin. 



Wino-, 3*62 inches; tail, 3'87 ; tarsus, 1'25 ; bill from nostril 

 (in a straight line) 1-00. 



Hob. Kareen Hills, Burma.— A Sf M. N. B. } 1873, p. 487. 



Sterxmla placens, Gould. 



Adult male. — Bill yellow, with the apical third of both mandi- 

 bles black, as sharply denned as if they had been dipped in ink ; 

 forehead white, advancing over each eye to near its posterior 

 anode ; lores, a narrow line above the eyes, crown and nape black ; 

 upper surface of the body and wing-coverts grey ; the first 

 primary slaty black on the outer web and along the inner web 

 next the shaft ; the shaft itself and the outer half of the inner 

 web white ; the second primary similarly but a little less 

 strongly marked ; the remainder of the primaries silvery grey, 

 with lighter shafts ; throat and all the under surface of the 

 body silky white ; tail white ; feet yellow. 



