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runs down and meets the dark centred ferruginous tipped 

 feathers of the sides of the neck, dividing the second dark 

 grey stripe from the dark-colored top of the head, so that 

 the present species has two conspicuous broad deep slaty grey 

 moustachial stripes, one from the anterior, one from near the 

 posterior, margin of the eye. I can trace nothing like this in 

 any of my Malayan specimens of fugax. 



The whole of the lower parts are white, tinged creamy, on, 

 the lower throat and breast and more feebly so on the middle 

 of the abdomen and tibial plumes ; and all these parts with 

 conspicuous black central stripes ; chin, upper throat and lower 

 tail coverts pure unmarked white ; forehead, cr >wn, occiput and 

 nape deep brownish slaty ; sides of the neck ferruginous ; the 

 feathers dark centred ; nape similar, but the feathers feebly 

 margined with pale ferrugiuous, and one or two of the feathers 

 on each side white tipped; entire mantle, wings and back deep 

 brown ; the feathers, some of them very obscurely margined 

 with dull ferruginous, shewing that the birds are not quite 

 adult, and spots of the same color on the outer webs of the 

 quills ; the inner webs, except towards the tips of the primaries, 

 with broad triangular buffy white bars, coalescing at the 

 margin towards the bases of the feathers ; tail tipped with 

 sordid white, then an 0*8 subterminal blackish band, then 

 an 06 to 0*8 pale grey brown interspace, the next succeeding 

 0*5 blackish brown band, cuspidate on its lower margin, then 

 au 0'5 pale interspace, then an 0"45 dark bar, also cuspidate 

 on the lower margin, then anU'5 interspace, and then another 

 dark bar. The whole of which, as well as half of the last inter- 

 space, hidden by the upper tail-coverts. The entire wing-lining 

 and edge of the wing at the carpal joint uniform cream color. 



This species is doubtless a Siamese bird, finding its way like 

 Pitta gurneyi into the extreme southern portions of the 

 Tenasserim province. 



Pelecanus longirostris, Sp. Nov. 



Like P. onocrotalus, but with a longer and narrower bill, and with the 

 rib of the upper mandible much more raised. 



My museum has contained, for the last seven years, a Peli- 

 can which I am unable to identify, and which has hitherto borne 

 the above manuscript name. This specimen was shot at 

 Dacca by some of my men who were working under, Mr. F. B. 

 Simson, the Commissioner's charge, along with several onocro- 

 talus and philippensis. 



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