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The following are dimensions recorded in the flesh of several 

 males : — 



Length, 575 to 6 ; expanse, 9-25 to 9-75 ; tail, 2*45 to 2-75 ; 

 wing-, 2-82 to 3*0 ; tarsus, 0-75 ; bill from gape, 075 to 0*82. 



Bill black ; iris brown ; legs, feet, and claws pinkish white ; 

 we have by some accident no females measured in the flesh. 

 A female measured in the skin : — 



Length, 5'5 ; wing, 2*75 ; tail, 225 ; bill from forehead, 0-63. 



The feet are colored as in the male, but the bills are dark 

 brown instead of black. 



1 can discover no other difference in the plumage of the 

 sexes. 



The entire cap and nape is dark olive ; the back the same 

 color with a rusty tinge ; the upper tail-coverts are rather more 

 decidedly rufous ; the tail rufescent olive, margined on the outer 

 webs, chiefly on the basal halves of the feathers, with a more 

 decided ferruginous ; the w 7 ings are hair brown ; all the fea- 

 thers margined on their outer webs with the same color as the 

 back, and the whole outer webs of the tertiaries of this same 

 color; the lores are greyish-white, bounded above by a dark 

 line ; the cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the head are greyish 

 olive ; the chin, throat, and lower parts are pure white, tinged 

 on the middle of the breast, with pale fulvous, and on the sides 

 of the breast and flanks with olive, sometimes mingled with 

 pale fulvous ; the wing lining and axillaries are generally 

 pure wdiite, in some specimens with a faint creamy or fulvous 

 tinge. 



From rujicauda its nearest ally it differs amongst other points 

 in the somewhat larger bill, the darker and richer tone of the 

 upper plumage, the pure white chin, throat and abdomen, the 

 black or blackish under mandible, and the pinkish white feet. In 

 ruficauda the legs and feet are dark plumbeous, and the lower 

 mandible pale, yellowish at base. 



From Cyornis mandelli it differs in its much longer bill, in 

 its dark under mandible, in its white or whitish wing lining, 

 in the less rufescent tinge on the back, in the absence of white 

 round the eye, in its more powerful legs and feet, &c. 



From female magnirostris it differs in its smaller bill, more 

 rufescent tone of upper plumage, white throat, and breast only 

 slightly tinged with fulvous. From the female of the Burmese 

 race of rabecidoides it differs by its much larger bill, pure 

 white chin and throat, and only faintly fulvescent breast ; and 

 of course in the matter of the sexes being entirely alike it 

 differs from all species of the rubeculoides und hyacinthina types. 



