404 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



typical form. Karen-nee at an elevation of 2,500 feet (Ward- 

 law Ramsay).— 4. fy M. N. H., June 1875,/?. 401. 



Trichastoma rubiginosa, Walden. 



Underneath lively chestnut red ; mesial line from chin to 

 breast, also of abdomen, white ; above dingy olive brown, 

 somewhat tinged with ferruginous, reiniges and rectrices pale 

 brown, outer edges of quills ferruginous ; inner edges of quills 

 pallid rusty ; lores grey. 



Wing, 3 ; tarsus, 1 38; tail, 2'50; bill from forehead, 0*94. 



" Iris light brown to blackish brown ; bill above, pale, (horny), 

 below yellowish at gape ; legs dull pinkish white. Karen-nee." 

 (Wardlaw Ramsay).— A and M. N. H., June 1875,2?. 402. 



Actinura Ramsayi, Walden. 



Under surface from chin to vent clear ochreous buff, some- 

 what darker on the chin and throat ; upper surface cinereous 

 olive ; forehead almost ferruginous j crown and crest, with the 

 nape, like the back, but tinged with ferruginous ; most of the 

 dorsal feathers traversed by faint, yet distinct, narrow dark 

 brown bands or lines, which on the upper tail-coverts are more 

 closely set together and very conspicuous ; lores and cheeks dark 

 brown, almost black ; sides of the head behind the eyes and 

 some of the lateral crest-plumes ashy, without any ferruginous 

 tinge ; eyelids white j primaries narrowly barred with black on 

 then- outer webs up to their insertion, also the minor coverts ; 

 all the rectrices olive-brown, like the tertiaries, and distinctly 

 barred with numerous well-defined narrow black bands ; all 

 but the middle pair broadly tipped with white ; under tail- 

 coverts and flanks somewhat darker than remainder of under 

 surface. 



Wing, 3-50 ; tarsus, 1*12 ; tail, 5 ; bill from forehead, 0-89. 



" Iris light hair brown ; bill horny brown ; legs slaty brown 

 $ Karen-nee (Wardlaw Ramsay). 



This is a representative form of A. Egertoni, from which it 

 chiefly differs by its light ochreous under surface, by the color- 

 ing of the upper plumage, by the primaries being barred through- 

 out their length, by the minor coverts being barred, and by the 

 distinct barring of the tail.— A. Sf M. N. H., June 1875, p. 402. 



Pomatorhinus mariae, Walden. 



A stripe commencing at the nostril, and which passes back 

 over the eye and down the sides of the neck, white, but partly 

 rusty fulvous near the nostril ; above this white stripe, and 

 bordering its length, a narrow black stripe; all the head within 

 the boundaries of the superciliary black stripe and the nape 

 dark rusty olive ; rest of upper surface dull olive-brown, with a 

 rusty tinge ; lores, cheeks and ear-coverts black ; chin and throat 



