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not differ. Whether male or female it differs conspicuously 

 from all the following species, all of which are represented in my 

 museum. 



Cyornis unicolor ; Blyth, Cyornis cyanoplia, * Boie ; Cyomis 

 rubcculoides, Vigors ; Cyornis elegans. Tern ; Cyornis Tickellice 

 Blyth; Cyornis ruficauda, Sev ; Cyornis MandelUi, Hume; Cyornis 

 olivacea, Hume ; Cyornis magnirostris, Blyth ; Cyornis pallipes 

 Jerd ; Cyornis vivida, Swinhoe. 



It is also clearly distinct, to judge from descriptions, measure- 

 ments, and figures from Cyornis banynmas, Horsf. Cyornis 

 rufifrons, Wall, and Cyornis cantatrix, Tern. 



It will not do for Cyornis beccaria?ia, as the wing is too 

 large, and the feet, even in the dry skin, almost white, 

 whereas Salvadori says that in his species the feet are dusky. f 

 Neither will it do for Cyornis simplex, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, 165, 

 with which it agrees in its white lores, but differs in its much 

 larger size (wing 3*1 ; agains 2 - 75 <? and 2'65 $ of simplex) and 

 in its snowy white chin, throat and abdomen, and white leers 

 and feet. 



Certainly, after carefully looking into the matter, the species 

 appears to me to be new. 



It is a true Cyornis ; the bill almost absolutely identical 

 with that of Cyornis magnirostris, from every stage of which 

 it differs conspicuously in other respects. 



Dimensions from shin. — Length, 6'25 ; tail, 2*9; w 7 ino- ? 3*1; 

 bill from forehead straight to point, 07 ; tarsus, 0'65. 



Entire bill black ; legs and feet white ; claws very pale horny ; 

 entire lores white or greyish white ; forehead, occiput, crown, 

 cheeks, ear-coverts, entire mantle, a slightly rufescent olive 

 brown, slightly more rufescent on the rump ; tail rufous 

 brown, margined with dull pale ferruginous on the outer webs ; 

 wings rather pale hair brown ; all the feathers but the primaries 

 margined broadly ou the outer webs with the color of the back, 

 slightly more rufescent on the secondaries and tertiaries, which 

 are almost entirely of this color ; chin, throat, upper breast, 

 abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts, wing-lining and axillaries 

 pure white; a broad greyish olivaceous pectoral band ; sides 

 tinned with the same color. 



* C. cyanpolia is, as Blyth remarks, extremely close to unicolor, but assuming 

 our specimens killed in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula to be true 

 cyanopolia, this differs from unicolar of Sikkim by its decidedly smaller bill its 

 more slender feet and claws, and the somewhat brighter hue of the frontal and 

 supercilary feathers. Moreover, the shafts of the tail feathers in unicolor are almost 

 white on their under surface, while in cyanopolia they are brown. 



f No doubt, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, 165. says the legs are pale, but Salvadori may be 

 presumed the best authority, as it was he who described the species. 



