491 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



remigibus cinnainomeis , secioidariorum marginibus externis brunneo 

 et cinereo obscure marmoratis : remigibus tertiariis rufo-brurmeis, 

 opicibus extensis nigris et albescente cinereo tenuiter marginatis : 

 marginibus externis cinereo et albo tenuiter marmoratis. 



Long, tota, 12 ; alee, 5*80 ; caudae, 4 - 20 ; tarsi, 1'58 ; rostri a 

 rietu ; 9*5 ; a fronte, 8 6. 



P Cauda magis brunnea : fascia post ocidos, cinnamomea: calcari 

 minutoJ' 



Except as regards Dr. Anderson's dimensions, which were 

 probably taken from a dried skin, a male obtained at Shillong, 

 by Mr. Cockburn, agrees very well with the above. 



These dimensions of Dr. Anderson's can scarcely have been 

 very carefully taken, since they give the tarsus of the male as 

 158, whereas Godwin-Austen gives the tarsus of a female fytchii 

 at 1-7. 



Now, if the reader will turn to Major Godwin-Austen's de- 

 scription, S. F., III., 400., he will observe the several points on 

 which Major Godwin-Austen lays stress as indicating the pro- 

 bable distinctness of fytchii and hopkinsoni — a distinctness in 

 which I do not believe because they do not hold good in my speci- 

 men from Shillong, which agrees in almost all the points to which 

 Major Godwin-Austen refers with fytchii, not with hopkinsoni. 



In the first-place the tarsus measures T82, and the mid-toe 

 1"65. Iu the second place, the black terminal spot on the flank, 

 feathers is not invariably heart-shaped, in fact only one spot 

 can possibly be called heart-shaped, The rest are triangular, 

 or shaped as in the plate of the P. Z. S. In the third place, on 

 the middle back and rump, there are no black spots, only a few 

 of the lateral tail-coverts exhibit small rather oval black spots, 

 margined below with buffy white. Iu the fourth place the 

 feathers of the upper back are not spotted with white at all, but 

 the scapulars and some of the wing-coverts nearest them show 

 greyish white zig-zag lines. Fifthly the chin is neither dark 

 brown nor very pale, but exactly as described by Dr. Anderson, 

 pale ochraceous like the lores and throat. Sixthly there is not 

 a trace of barring on the tail. Seventhly the tail beneath is pale 

 dingv reddish brown at the base and dull brown at the tips. 



Under these circumstances, as this bird, which agrees so well 

 with fytchii, was obtained exactly at the same place as Major 

 Godwin-Austen's type, we nviy I think safely suppress the 

 name hopkinsoni. 



My bird measured in the flesh : — 



Length, 14; expanse, 19; wing, 645 ; tail from vent, 4' 7 5, 

 from base, 48; bill from gape, 0'9 ; the spur is exactlv 0*4 long. 



The logs and feet were brown, not grey ; the irides dark 

 brown. 



