RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 403 



Wardlaw Ramsay on the Tonghoo hills (Karen-nee) at an 

 elevation of 3,000 feet. A. 8f 31. N. IL, June 1875, p. 400. 



Dicseum olivaceum, Walden. 



Ahove olive-green ; the occipital feathers centred with pale 

 brown, and those of the uropygium a few shades brighter 

 green ; rectrices black ; below and lores cinereous, with a 

 pale yellowish tinge, and the flanks with pale olive-green ; 

 quills brown, edged externally with olive-green of a rather 

 brighter shade than that of the upper plumage. Wing, 1'75 ; 

 tail, 1*7 ; tarsus, 0'43 ; bill from forehead, 0-38. 



Described from four examples obtained by Lieutenant 

 Wardlaw Ramsay on the Tonghoo and Karen hills. It only 

 differs from D. pygmxum ( $ ) by having the uropygium and 

 upper tail-coverts brighter yellowish green and the under tail- 

 coverts a purer yellow ; from D. virescens by wanting the 

 albescent or pale grey throat and breast and the yellow ab- 

 domen.— A. $ M. N. H., June 1875, p. 401. 



Ixus annectens, Walden, 



Forehead, crown and nape cinereous brown, each feather 

 edged with golden olive-green, imparting an almost golden olive- 

 green hue to those parts ; interscapular region and back cinere- 

 ous brown, tinged with olive-green, which colour is more 

 intense on the rump ; upper tail-coverts golden-olive ; major 

 and minor coverts and secondaries dull olive-green ; shoulder- 

 edge, under shoulder-coverts, thigh-coverts, ventral region, 

 and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; chin and throat cinereous 

 brown, most of the feathers with golden-yellow centres, im- 

 parting a streaked appearance, a few descending to the upper 

 reast ; flanks and remainder of lower surface cinereous brown ; 

 ear-coverts brown. 



" Length, 7*7 ; tarsus, 075 ; wing, 3'3 ; tail, 3-1 ; bill, 0*85. 

 Iris pale yellow ; bill dark horny ; legs leaden brown.'" 

 (WardlawRamsay) described from an individual obtained by 

 Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay at Rangoon. His dimensions 

 were taken from the fresh specimen. It is nearly allied to, 

 though perfectly distinct from, /. Fiulaysonii. — A. 8f M. N. U. t 

 June 1875, p. 401. 



Drymocataphus fulvus, Walden •. 



Above fulvous brown ; feathers of head, nape, and back pale- 

 shafted ; lores, chin, throat, breast, thigh-coverts, sides of neck, 

 and under tail-coverts pale rusty fulvous ; rectrices, outer 

 edging of primaries and secondaries, and all the tertiary quills, 

 pale liver brown. 



Wing, 2-50; tail, 2*12; tarsus, 1 ; bill from forehead, 

 0"65 ; bill and legs, in dried skin, and claws pale fulvous. A 



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