392 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



beneath dull dirty white, purer on chin and throat, with a 

 few white feathers bounding the ear-coverts; flanks, thighs 

 and under tail-coverts dark rusty chesnut, all the latter with 

 a terminal white spot ; outer tail feathers black, a white patch 

 on inner web of the three outer, which are tipped grey and 

 terminally black on outer web, white on middle portion of the 

 outer web of the outermost tail feather. 



Bill black above, gi'ey below ; irides dark brown ; legs 

 green black. 



Length, 4 "9; wing, 3*0; tail, 1*75 ; tarsus, 0*68; bill at 

 front, 0*58; spread of foot, 1*2. 



Erythrosterna sordida, Godwin- Austen. 



Three specimens of this bird were shot under Japvo Peak 

 in January ; having failed to identify it, 1 believe it to be 

 nndescribed. 



Description. — Above dull olivaceous browu, ochraceous on 

 rump and upper tail feathers ; tail umber-brown, slightly 

 tinged with ochre on outer web ; quills same as tail and pale- 

 edged ; the primary and secondary coverts very slightly tipped 

 pale so as to form an inconspicuous bar on the wing; a pale 

 ring round eye ; lores and ear- coverts dull grey, with a rufous 

 tinge; beneath dull lutescent, darker on flanks, centre of 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white. 



Length, 5 - 25 ; w T ing, 2"6 ; tarsus, 2*4; bill at front, 0-23. 



It is somewhat similar to E. lencura,bnt the white basal half of 

 the tail feathers in this last-named bird distinguishes it at once. 



Paradoxornis Austeni, Gould. 



At Kuchai, in the Naga Hills, at about 6,000 feet elevation, 

 in April, I obtained two specimens of this bird ; I afterwards 

 procured three at Shillong in the summer. They differed so 

 much from my original specimen of P. Jlavirostris shot in the 

 low marshy country at the base of the hills, that I was inclined 

 to consider them distinct. Mr. Gould, to whom I shewed 

 these specimens, and who had figured P. Jlavirostris from the 

 original specimens sent home, pronounced them to be new to 

 him, and has described and figured the species in the ' Birds 

 of Asia/ under the above title. Not having his description, 

 I will only mention that the chief points of difference lie in 

 the pale nearly white colour of the under parts, the paler brown 

 of the back, and a markedly different distribution of the black 

 on side of head and breast. 



My specimens measured — 



Length, 7*8 ; wing, 3*3 ; tail, 4*1 ; tarsus, 1*05 ; bill at front, 

 0-67 ; bill from gape, 0'4 ; which dimensions are smaller than 

 those of P. Jlavirostris. 



