410 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



a very rich olive brown, more or less tinged with ruddy, es- 

 pecially on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the tail-feathers 

 a somewhat rufous brown, slightly more rufous at the margins ; 

 quills hair-brown, margined exteriorly with a ruddy olivaceous 

 tinge ; median and larger coverts olivaceous ; lesser coverts and 

 carpal joint of the wing more or less pure cyaneous ; lower 

 parts, including wing-lining, a sort of fulvous buff, shaded 

 with dusky olive on the sides of the neck and throat and on 

 the sides and flanks; centre of abdomen and vent nearly pure 

 white ; lower tail-coverts fulvous, mingled with olive brown ; 

 lores and chin, and an indistinct supercilium, dull fulvous. 



Although a considerably larger bird than any of the other 

 known species, this is unquestionably structurally a true 

 Dumeticola, corresponding in shape of wing, tail, bill, 

 and feet with Dumeiicola affinis, with a large series of which 

 I carefully compared it. The dull blue patch on the carpal 

 joint would naturally awaken the suspicion that it was a female 

 Myiomela or Brachypteryx ; but it is unquestionably a Dume- 

 ticola. It was obtained in one of the low valleys in the interior 

 of Sikkim by one of the shikarees employed for me by Capt. 

 Masson.— Ibis, 1872, p. 108. 



Horornis erythrogenys, Hume. 



Dimensions. — Length, 5 ; wing, 225 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0*68 ; 

 mid toe and claw, 0'7 ; bill at front, 0*42. 



Description. — Bill brown above, fleshy at gape and base of 

 lower mandible; legs and feet pale fleshy, dusky at joints. 

 Plumage. — The whole upper surface, including wings and tail, 

 a rich rufescent brown ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and a narrow 

 line over the eye rich chestnut rufous ; centre of chin and 

 throat and centre of abdomen nearly pure white ; sides of neck 

 and breast dull rufescent; sides of abdomen and flanks rufescent 

 brown ; wing-lining rufescent white. 



This is a typical Horornis, if I rightly apprehend Mr. Hodg- 

 son's genus. The specimen was shot by Mr. William Masson 

 on the 20th of May, 1870, below Darjeeling. It is very 

 distinct from any species of Horornis or Horeites described by 

 Messrs. Blyth, Hodgson, and Jerdon. — Ibis, 1872, p. 108. 



Horeites brunnescens, Hume. 



Dimensions. — Length, 4*25; wing, 2*2 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0*82 ; 

 bill at front, 0-33. 



Description. — Legs, feet, and bill pale brown, the latter darker 

 on the upper mandible. Plumage. — The whole upper surface, 

 including the wing-coverts and the greater portion of the exterior 

 webs of the quills, olivaceous, tinged with rufous more strongly 

 on the head, and most conspicuously so on the exterior margins 



