112 NOVELTIES. 



The following are tbe dimensions, colours of the soft parts, 

 and description of a fine male, killed on tbe Toungya road to 

 Myawadee : — 



Length, 8'5 ; expanse, 12-25 ; tail, 3*6 ; wing, 4*04; tarsus, 

 0-6; bill from gape, 0'95; weight, 1-23. 



Bill and claws black ; legs and feet reddish brown ; irides 

 crimson lake. 



The lores, feathers at base of lower mandible, under the eye, 

 and under rather more than half the ear-coverts deep brown, 

 almost black, but not so black as in flavala and Hildebrandi. 

 Ear-coverts very pale satiny brown, a shade paler than in the 

 other two species I think. 



Entire cap, back, wings, tail, a most beautiful rich full 

 brown, deepest on head and mantle, slightly paler on nape, and 

 with a decided grey tinge on the rump, forming a well denned 

 rump band. The winglet and six first primaries and their 

 greater coverts and the tail feathers without a trace of any yellow 

 margins. The later primaries, secondaries and tertiaries and 

 their greater coverts narrowly margined with bright olive yel- 

 low. These margins are about ^rd of thetvidth of those on the 

 wing of flavala, and one-half the width of those of Hildebrandi, 

 giving even the closed wing a very different appearance. 



Chin and throat pure white, very conspicuously limited by the 

 dark streak on either side, more so than in the other two species 

 the streak being somewhat longer. 



Sides of neck, behind ear-coverts, upper breast, sides and flanks 

 a delicate ash grey, rather a different shade to that of the other 

 two species; middle of lower breast, abdomen, vent and lower tail 

 coverts, white, with a more or less of faint ashy shade, chiefly 

 in streaks and patches. 



Wing lining white, with a faint yellow tinge near the carpal 

 joint, as in the other two species. 



Allotrius intermedius. 



Like A. melanotis, Bly., but has a larger bill and a deep chestnut frontal 

 band, and wants the broad slatey nuchal half collar and the black band 

 behind the ear-coverts. Like A. aenobarbus, Temm. but has a smaller 

 bill, a much deeper chestnut frontal band, the chestnut of the throat 

 descending to the abdomen and the grey supercilliary stripe prolonged 

 as a wide band over the ear-coverts and completely round their ends. 



I am afraid a great many of my readers will abuse me 

 heartily for making such a number of new species, differing 

 only in small particulars from already well-known ones. 



I am very sorry, but the culprit is not this humble indivi- 

 dual, but our great full-bosomed Mother Nature — let her bear 



