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similar to those of their Dearly-allied congener so common in 

 India and Ceylon. A specimen of this latter species, procured 

 in Borneo, is, I note, in the Leyden Museum, but with this 

 exception, I can find no record of its occurrence anywhere in 

 Malasia or the Archipelago, or indeed anywhere except in 

 India and Ceylon. 



Ixus Davisoni, Sp. Nov. 



Like T. Finlaysoni, but larger (wing, 3'5) and brighter colored ; upper sur- 

 face much more strongly tinged with golden olive ; no orange yellow 

 streaks on forehead, but a conspicuous orange line over the lores. 



In November last Mr. Davison, amongst a number of other 

 birds, obtained, while he was on a visit to Mr. Oates at Rangoon, 

 sent me a specimen of an lxus, which, though allied to both 

 Finlaysoni and flavescens, and especially the former, is yet quite 

 distinct from these, and appears to me to be as yet undescribed. 

 A single male was shot at a place 12 miles north of Rangoon, 

 and not being discriminated by Davison, who mistook it for 

 Finlaysoni, was unfortunately not measured in the flesh. The 

 following dimensions are those of the dry skin : — 



Length, 8*0; wing, 3'5 ; tail, 3*3 ; tarsus, 08. 



Bill, legs, and feet, blackish brown ; crown, occiput, nape, and 

 sides of neck dull olive green ; the feathers inconspicuously cen- 

 tered and tinged with golden olive ; lores dark brown ; a bright 

 orange line over the lores ; ear-coverts mingled brown and orange 

 yellow ; chin, throat, breast, dull pale earth brown ; all the feathers 

 of the two former, with conspicuous bright orange yellow shaft 

 streaks, and those of the latter a little margined Avith olivaceous ; 

 upper abdomen and flanks similar, but darker and more strongly 

 tinged with olive yellow; centre of upper abdomen with streaks 

 of gamboge yellow ; lower abdomen, vent, aud lower tail- 

 coverts very bright gamboge yellow ; entire mantle, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts dull golden olive, brightest on the two latter ; 

 the bases of all the feathers earth brown, which however only 

 shows though slightly on the upper back, and back of the neck ; 

 quills, dark hair brown, the outer webs entirely overlaid with 

 moderately bright golden olive ; the tertiaries more or less 

 overlaid with the same on the inner webs, and some of the 

 later secondaries with a tinge of the same on the inner webs 

 at the tips ; the shoulder of the wing, the wing lining, and 

 the margins of the inner webs on the lower surface of the 

 quills gamboge yellow, brightest on the first ; the tail dull 

 golden olive, the inner webs duller and browner, and all 

 obsoletely barred in certain lights. 



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