RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECrES. 393 



Legs plumbeous with a slight tinge of green ; bill yellow. 



[Mr. Grould thus describes the species : — B. of As., Pt. XX VI, 

 pi. IV. 



" Above very pale brown, the tail almost uniform with the 

 back, and showing some slight barring when held away from 

 the light ; wings rather darker than the back ; the inner webs 

 of the quills deep sepia brown ; entire head and hind neck 

 pale sandy rufous ; lores, feathers all round and below the eye 

 as well as on the fore part of the cheeks buffy white ; ear-co- 

 verts black ; sides of neck very pale sandy buff; under sur- 

 face of body buffy white, more fulvous on the sides and flanks, 

 the chin slightly blackish, and the fore neck marked with a 

 few triangular spots of black ; under wing-coverts clear ful- 

 vous, like the inner lining of the wing." — Ed., S. V. ] 



Turdinus garoensis, Godwin-Austen. 



Above pale rufescent brown, rather richer on head, wings, 

 and tail ; feathers of head pale-shafted ; beneath, all pale 

 fulvous, and whitish on abdomen. 



Length, 45 ; wing, 2-4; tail, 2 - l ; tarsus, I/O; bill at 

 front, 0-5. 



Bill is brown above, pale ochre below ; legs pale corneous ; 

 tarsus and claws strong, the hind toe and claw long. It was 

 among the birds collected by Mr. Win. Robert in the Garo 

 Hills, to whom is due the credit of its discovery. 



This bird is very similar in coloration to T. Abbotti ; but the 

 bill differs much in the form of the nostrils, which have, as in 

 Pnoepyga, a lunular cover. This and Turdinus brevicaudatus 

 would be, perhaps, better placed after Pnoepyga, with which 

 they are closely linked through Pnoepyga longicaudata. 



Garrulax albosuperciliaris, Godwin- Austen. 



Described in the P. Z. S. for 1874 as follows : "Above head 

 and forehead reddish umber-brown, paling on back of neck into 

 the dull olivaceous brown of the rump and whole of the wing ; 

 tail pale red brown; lores, a patch below eye, under ear-coverts, 

 and supercilium which extends backwai'ds for 1£ inches from 

 the lores, white; upper portion of ear-coverts dark brown; 

 chin and throat ruddy brown, paling on the breast into very 

 pale clingy olivaceous, and iuto pale earthy ochre on abdomen 

 and flanks ; under tail-coverts rufous." 



Bill black ; legs fleshy brown ; irides dull red. 



Length, 9"0 ; wing, 3'8 ; tail, 4*2 ; tarsus, 1*38 ; bill at front, 

 0-7. 



One specimen obtained in the Munipur valley, near Kaibi. 



This dull coloured Garrulax is very similar in coloration to 

 G. rufifrons, Sw., from Java, which is a larger bird and has no 



