NOVELTIES. 105 



The following are the dimensions and colours of the soft 

 parts of a male killed on the 23rd February at Moolyit, re- 

 corded from the fresh specimen : — 



Length, 6 - 2 ; expanse, 8'0 ; tail, 27 ; wing, 245 ; tarsus, 089 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'75 ; weight, 0'62. 



Lower mandible, legs, feet and claws, whitey brown ; upper 

 mandible darker, but still pale brown ; irides creamy yellow. 



The lores and orbital space are greyish, brownish white. 



The ear-coverts pale earthy brown, the feathers finely tipped 

 with pale fulvous and greyish white. 



The entire under surface is white, the sides of the throat, 

 breast, sides and flanks, faintly tinged with a shade of pale 

 sullied dove-brown. The wing lining, axillaries, and basal por- 

 tions of the inner webs of the quills silky white. 



The entire cap, back of neck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts 

 and outer webs of tertiaries earth brown, darker on the four first, 

 palest on the last ; rump and upper tail-coverts fulvous brown, 

 but not nearly so bright as in cyanouroptera. Quills deep hair 

 brown, the outer webs of the primaries and the winglet deep 

 dull blue. Some of the feathers of the forehead and over ihe 

 eye, centered darker, and with a barely perceptible purplish 

 tinge. Tail blackish dusky, inner webs paler, outer webs 

 suffused with a blue tinge, duller and deeper than in the Hima- 

 layan bird. Exterior tail feathers with whole inner webs white ; 

 next pair with an 0'2 white tipping and a good deal of sullied 

 white running down the inner edge of the inner web j next 

 pair with an - 07 white tipping ; next with a barely perceptible 

 ditto ; none to central feathers. 



In the Himalayan birds the lower surface is a pale drab. 

 Of course, the first thing that occurs to one is that these 

 Tenasserim birds are young ones ; but it is contrary to the law 

 of chances, to suppose that of over 50 birds shot at all seasous, 

 in various localities in the Himalayas, not one should be young, 

 and that per contra of the Tenasserim birds, shot in February 

 and March mind, not one should be adult. 



Anthipes submoniliger. 



Closely resembles moniliger, but has a larger and broader bill ; the white 

 throat patch (strongly defined by a black band in moniliger) larger and 

 scarcely perceptibly margined laterally by dark brown ,• the forehead 

 and eye streak a much b righter rufous fulvous, and the lores (olive brown 

 in moniliger) the same colour ; upper surface paler and more rufescent; 

 axillaries pure white (sordid or pale fulvous ivhite in moniliger.) 





This is another Tenasserim representative form, that manv 

 would scarcely consider deserving of specific separation. Still 



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