488 NOVELTIES. 



informs me is Temminckii, it is 9 ; in longirostra it is 0'8 to 

 0-9 ; in modesta, I/O to l'l ; but in this supposed new species 

 the chin ends in a comparatively sharp point only 06 from the 

 tip of the lower mandible. 



Dimensions from shin. — Length, 6'5 ; wing 1 , 38; tail, 20; 

 tarsus about 0*9 ; bill at front from forehead, 1*3. 



The plumage is precisely, so far as I can discover, that of 

 flavigaster, brighter and yellower than the great run of speci- 

 mens of this species, but not brighter than one very bright 

 specimen that we obtained at Pulo Seban. There is, however, 

 an obscure yellow line down the centre of the chin and throat 

 not observable in any of our very large series ; the feet, too, in 

 the skin, though I attach but little value to this, are extremely 

 pale yellowish white, quite different from, and much paler than, 

 those of any of our specimens, and besides our own collections 

 we have numerous native prepared skins ; but the difference is 

 the difference of the bill ; not only is the bill much shorter but 

 it is actually scarcely half the breadth at the base. At the base, 

 where the feathers end on the lores, it is only 0*22 broad ; the 

 bill of flavigaster in a fine specimen similarly measured is over 

 0'4. It is narrower even, or quite as narrow as in the much 

 smaller A. chrysogenys, and it is much shorter than in that 

 species. Between the nostrils the culmen is even more flattened 

 and rounded than in flavigaster, but beyond them the ridge of 

 the culmen is more sharply angulated than in chrysogenys ; but 

 the point by which it may be at once separated is the extraordi- 

 nary length and sharpness of the chin angle, already fully dis- 

 cused. 



This bird may not be new, but I am unable to identify it ; 

 and I think it probable that owing to its extreme similarity to 

 the common flavigaster it may hitherto have escaped observ- 

 ation. 



Cyornis albo-olivacea Sp. Nov. 



Above rufesceni olivaceous, most rufescent posteriorly ; entire lores tohite 

 or greyish white : fotver surface snow tohite, with an olive grey pectoral 

 band, and sides and flanks tinged ivith the same color ; legs and 

 feet ivhite and small; bill large, 07 at front ; wing 31. 



We obtained in the neighbourhood of Malacca a single spe- 

 cimen of a Cyornis, which appears to me to be undescribed, and 

 for which, in the preparation of a catalogue of our Malayan 

 birds, I find it necessary to propose some name. Unfortunately 

 our specimen was not sexed, and it may be a female, but 

 I believe it to be a male of a species in which the two sexes do 



