58 RECENTLY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



Suya erythropleura, Wald. 



Male, above rufous brown, the base of the feathers being ash 

 Ou the lower back and upper tail-coverts, the rufous hue predo 

 minates. Space before the eye, dark brown. A white line 

 springing from near the nostril, passes back over and behind the 

 eye. Ear-coverts, cheeks, chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and 

 wing-lining, creamy white, strongly suffused with rufo-fulvous. 

 Flanks, thigh-coverts, and under tail-coverts, bright ferrugi- 

 nous. Quills, brown edged, with ferruginous. Rectrices, like 

 the back. 



(<J) wing, 1-87 ; tail, 4-87; tarsus, 088; bill, from forehead, 

 0-65. Tonghoo {W. E.).—J. A. S. B., 1875, Extra. No. p. 120. 



Garrulax nuchalis, God.-Aust. 



Above, top of head to nape, dark slaty grey, succeeded by a 

 broad rich ferruginous collar an inch in breadth, which fades 

 into the olive.green of the back. Wings and tail of a rather 

 darker tint of olive, the latter tipped black ; the first four 

 primaries are edged hoary grey ; the shoulder of wing has a 

 rusty tinge. A narrow frontal band ; the lores with a narrow 

 line over and below the eye, black ; this is continued in a 

 streak of dark rusty brown over the ear-coverts ; a few white 

 feathers border the black frontal band above. Chin, black, 

 extending a short way down the middle of throat; breast, pale 

 ashy, with a slight vinous tinge. Cheeks and ear-coverts pure 

 white. Flanks and under tail-coverts dull olive green. Bill, 

 black, lrides, purple lake. Legs, fleshy grey. 



Length, 10 inches ; wing, 4 - 25 ; tail, 4'6 ; tarsus, 1*7 ; bill, at 

 front, 0-9. 



This beautiful species was among a batch of birds lately 

 received from and collected by Mr. M. T. Ogle of the Topogra- 

 phical Survey, in the Lhota-Naga hills. It is the representa- 

 tive there of G. chinensis, but differs in possessing the broad 

 ferruginous nape, and the neutral grey of the head is of a 

 darker hue. In other respects it is identical, save in some minor 

 points, such as : — the black of the throat does not extend so far 

 down on to the upper breast ; the lower breast is paler than in 

 chinensis, and has a vinous tinge; the under tail-coverts are pare 

 olivaceous with no ochraceous tint ; and, lastly, the white of the 

 cheek and ear-coverts extends in this new form further down 

 the side of the neck. — A. and M., Nat. Hist., November 1876. 



