54 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



a white frontal band extends through the eye to the ear- 

 coverts and side of the neck, the portion near base of bill 

 and the ear-coverts being pale flaxen. Beneath the chin, 

 white ; throat and upper breast, earth-brown, with a pale scarlet 

 o-oro-et bordering a black patch, which, commencing at the 

 o-ape, widens and extends down the side of the neck, a few 

 pure white feathers separating this from the earth-brown of 

 the throat ; flanks, white ; the tail has the two outer feathers 

 white, barred with black on inner web, the outermost has two 

 spots on the white outer web, and in the penultimate this 

 web is entirely white ; tips of the four outer tail-feathers 

 ferruginous ; the abdomen and under tail-coverts are crimson. 

 Bill, dark plumbeous, rather stouter and blunter than that of 

 P. majoroicles ; legs, equal in size. 



Length, about 8 inches; wing, 5*0 ; tail, 3*68 ; tarsus, 0*85 ; 

 bill at front, M7. 



Eab. — Was obtained by Mr. Wm. Robert at Gonglong, 

 Munipur Hills. 



It differs from P. manderinus, Gould, in being smaller, in the 

 white on the wings being more conspicuous, in being browner 

 on the throat and breast, and in its whiter tail. In the speci 

 men of P. manderinus in the British Museum with which I 

 compared it, the outer web of the penultimate tail-feather has 

 a black spot.— J. A. S. B., Vol. XLV., p. 194, 1876. 



Alcippe fusca, God.-Aust. 



Above head and nape, dull grey; back, olivaceous ochre, 

 richer and more ochraceous on the rump. Tail, umber-brown, 

 edged with the same colour as the back. Wing, rich ochrey 

 brown ; fulvescent ochre inside as well as on the flanks and 

 thio-hs. Ear-coverts, dull brown ; chin, sullied white. Bill and 

 legs, horny. Irides ? 



Length,* about 5*75 inches; wing, 2 '85 ; tail, 2*7 ; tarsus, 0'87 ; 

 bill at front, 0"47. 



The above dimensions taken from skin. 



jjal^ — Four specimens were obtained by Mr. A. W. Chennell 

 in the Naga Hills. 



Havino- remembered to have seen a very similar bird in the 

 Jardin des Plantes, I forwarded a specimen to M. Oustalet, 

 who very kindly examined it and gave me the following par- 

 ticulars : — It has a strong likeness to an Alcippe from Fokien 

 named by M. A. David, Alcippe Hueti ; the tint of the 

 head, back, and abdomen are nearly the same, but there are 

 differences worthy of notice. 1st. A. Hueti has the bill decided- 

 ly shorter than A. fusca. 11 millims, instead of 13, taking 



