338 NOVELTIES. 



Males are larger, the wing in one being 3 '45, the tail, 5 "5. 



The birds are strikingly larger than in caudata — quite as large 

 as any huttoni that I have seen from Khelat or Persia ; but 

 whereas huttoni runs paler and greyer than caudata, the 

 present species runs much darker and warmer colored. 



The bill (in winter) is dusky brown, tinged with fleshy 

 yellow towards the base ; the legs and feet are pale horny ; 

 the irides brownish red. 



In the freshly-moulted bird killed, say in December, the 

 whole upper surface is brown, a purer warmer and less grey 

 shade than in caudata, and the dark central stripes of head 

 and back are much darker, and on the back broader than in 

 that species. The tail, too, is very conspicuously transversely 

 rayed. 



The ear-coverts are much darker ; the whole lower surface is 

 warmer colored, more fulvous and browner on the flanks ; and all 

 the breast-feathers, and those of the sides, have darker central 

 shaft stripes. 



Of course birds of the same season must be compared. By 

 August the birds are scarcely darker than a December 

 caudata ; the greater part of the bill is horny yellow, and the 

 striatums of the breast and raying of the tail have wholly, 

 or to a great extent, disappeared ; but even at this season 

 they are equally darker and warmer colored than caudata in 

 the same abraded stage. 



I only know of the occurrence of this species in the N.-W. 

 Puujaub in our own territories, Trans-Indus, and the low hills 

 and valleys leading into these from Cashmere. 



Cyornis olivacea, Sp. Nov. 



Sexes alike. Upper surface rich rufescent olive, more rufescent on tail. 

 Lower surface white, slightly tinged with fulvous on middle and 

 olivaceous on sides of breast. Lower mandible black or blackish. 

 Wing lining pure white or nearly so. Legs and feet pinkish white. 



In the extreme southern portion of the Tenasserim Provinces 

 a Cyornis of the ruficauda group occurs, which appears to me to 

 be undescribed. The upper surface is extremely close iu colora- 

 tion to that of many females of the Burmese representative 

 race of rubeculoides, but it has a much larger bill than that 

 species, though smaller than that of magnirostris. The upper 

 surface of the females of which is also very like that of our 

 present bird. 



