NOVELTIES. 299 



(Ibis, 1874, p. 3) united by Dr. Sclater with this present genus, 

 I take this opportunity of reiterating, that in its larger size, 

 more massive body, longer tail, and much shorter, coarser and 

 more triangular bill, suddenly compressed towards the tip, 

 Pachyglossa is, in my opinion, quite distinct from Prionochilus. 



The following are the dimensions of the present species 

 recorded in the flesh from 4 males and 5 females : — 



Males. — Length, 4-0 to 4*25; expanse, 7*35 to 7-75; tail, 

 1*12 to 1*3; wing, 2-25 to 2*5 ; tarsus, 0*45 ; bill, from gape, 

 04 to 0'45 ; weight, 0*35 to 0*4 of an oz. 



Females. — Length, 4'0 to 4*12; expanse, 7*0 to 7*5; tail, 1*1 

 to 1*25; wing, 215 to 2-38; tarsus, 0*4 to 0'5 ; bill, from 

 gape, 0*4 to 0*45 ; weight, 0*3 to 04 oz. 



The irides vary in different specimens from pale sienna brown 

 to pale yellowish red, and orange. The legs, feet, and claws 

 are dark plumbeous ; the upper mandible varies from pale 

 horny brown to horny black. The gape is always more or less 

 orange, as is also the inside of the mouth, the lower mandible 

 varies, in some it is fleshy white tipped brownish, in others light 

 plumbeous or blue, while in one or two specimens, shot later 

 in the spring, the lower mandible as well as the gape was 

 orange. 



The whole upper plumage is a dark olive green, in some 

 specimens precisely the shade of Dicceum concolor, Jerd., in 

 others somewhat lighter and brighter; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts are slightly yellower ; the quills, coverts, and tail- 

 feathers are dark hair brown, all edged with yellowish olive green. 

 All the tail feathers are very narrowly tipped with white, the 

 tipping on the exterior feathers of the tail being much deeper 

 on the inner webs. The shoulder of the wing is white ; the 

 wing lining white, mingled with olivaceous grey. There is a 

 dull greenish white stripe through the lores. The cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of the neck dull green like the upper parts, 

 but somewhat greyer. The lower parts are white tinged with 

 pale yellow. A narrow ill-defined stripe of olivaceous grey 

 runs down either side of the throat from the base of the lower 

 mandible. The whole of the beast is streaked, and the whole 

 of the sides and flanks suffused, with this greyish olive, but 

 the centre of the abdomen, the vent, the tibial plumes, and 

 lower tail- coverts are pure very pale yellow or perhaps it 

 should be called yellowish white. 



It is to be noted that in some specimens the yellow tinge 

 f though pale in all) is much more decided than in others. 



This bird at first sight seems like a very green edition of 

 Piprisoma agile, but the bill is not nearly so deep, nor is it so 

 strongly compressed near the tip. The bill in the present species 

 is very close to that of P. vi?icens, but is rather more compressed 



