RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 395 



[The following was Blyth's original description : — a General 

 colour deep olive brown ; the median part of the under parts 

 pale rufescent whitish brown, and spotted with black on the 

 throat and upper part of the breast, much as in Turdus musicus; 

 a narrow white streak behind the eye ; irides whitish brown ; 

 bill dusky plumbeous; legs brown, with albescent toes. Length, 

 9^ inches ; expanse of wings, 12 ; closed wing, 3^ ; tail, 3-^ ; bill to 

 gape, 1 j ; tarsi, If. Common inChera Punji." (Blytb, J. A. S.B., 

 1851, p. 521). Dr. Jerdon says: — (i I procured this rare 

 species on the Rhasias in 1862, and have not since had an op- 

 portunity of observing it."— Ibis, 1872, p. 303.— Ed., S. F.] 



Trochalopteron cineraceum, Godwin- Austen. 



Described in the P. Z. S. for 1874, with plate. 



Above pale ashy olivaceous, greyer on the tail, which is black 

 for 0*7 inches at the terminal end, then tipped broadly white ; 

 quills pale black, edged hoary grey ; the secondaries tipped black, 

 and their square tips edged white in keeping with the tail ; 

 primary coverts near the bastard wing black, forming a wing 

 spot; top of head black, extending in a narrow line down 

 back of neck ; lores and a broad band over eyes and ear-coverts 

 dingy white ; a few pure white feathers below eyes merging 

 into ear-coverts ; a narow black line extends from posterior 

 corner of eye over the ear-coverts, and a moustachial streak of 

 the same colour merges into indistinct spots ; chin white with 

 a few black streaks ; breast and under parts sullied white, with a 

 slight vinous tinge on the former, and a dash of ruddy rufous on 

 side of the neck, ochraceous on belly and under tail-coverts. 



Bill pale yellow, shaded dark above ; legs fleshy brown ; irides 

 pale ruddy ochre. 



Length, 8*75 ; wing, 3'22; tail, 4-0 ; tarsus, 125 ; bill at 

 front, 0-68. 



In general style of coloration this bird approaches T. varioga- 

 tum, Vigors. Its yellow bill and much smaller weaker legs and 

 feet, make it a very marked form of this genus. 



Trochalopteron virgatum, Godwin- J listen. 



Described in P. Z. S., for 1874, as follows : — 

 Head dark rufous brown, olivaceous on back, paler and grey- 

 er on rump ; tail olive brown, with a slight tiuge of rusty on 

 basal half, finely and indistinctly barred ; wing three first quills 

 grey on outer web, the rest and secondaries pale ferruginous, 

 merging into rich chesnut at their base ; coverts of the latter 

 colour, narrowly tipped ochre ; feathers of the winglet conspicu- 

 ously white centred ; lores chesnut, a white supercilium ; ear- 

 coverts pale rusty ; chin and throat rich dark chesnut ; breast 

 and abdomen bright ochraceous ; under tail-coverts darker 



