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of its genus. Lacking any data as to intermediate specimens I give 

 it full specific rank. 



Ithaginis kuseri sp. nov. 



Entire forehead, chin, throat and sides of the head crimson. 

 A narrow collar of black feathers with crimson fringes crosses the 

 upper breast, merging at the sides with the blue-grey of the mantle. 

 Posteriorly the breast, upper belly and corresponding sides of the 

 body are intense crimson, marked only with very narrow shaft-lines 

 of pale green. Behind this area the lower belly and sides down to 

 the thigh, are brilliant clear, apple-green. 



The whole head is chiefly black with no white or cream color 

 except a trace on the nape. The upper body plumage is uniform 

 blue-grey, with conspicuous shaft-stripes, white without any tinge 

 of green. The wing-coverts are bright, clear green throughout, and 

 the middle and greater coverts are very long, with recurved, de- 

 composed barbs. Black is wholly lacking on the visible portion of 

 these coverts, the only character being the slightly paler green 

 shaft-stripe. The concealed bases show a rufous-brown tinge, while 

 still more basally the feather becomes blue-grey with the narrow 

 black lines bordering the shaft. The covert and tail fringes of 

 crimson are well developed and the under tail coverts are brilliant 

 crimson. 



The description is of the specimen here designated as the type 

 and is a fully adult male bird. No. 179A in the mounted collection 

 of the Museum National D'Historie Naturelle. It is marked 

 "Yunnan. Prince H. d'Orleans, 1896". Measurements in inches 

 of this specimen are culmen 43; wing 8.5; tail 5.2; tarsus 2.5; mid- 

 dle toe and claw 2.1. There are two spurs on the right leg and a 

 single one on the left, each about half an inch in length. The speci- 

 men is considerably moth-eaten and in a bad state of preservation. 



A second specimen of Ithaginis kuseri, the only one, except my 

 fragment, of which I know, is No. 179B in the same collection. It 

 is a young bird in its first year, the spurs being mere flat nodules. 

 It corresponds in all respects with the type, except that there is an 

 even greater infusion of black throughout the plumage. The tail, 

 which is more perfect than in the other bird, is an inch longer. Its 

 label gives "Tsekon, Yunnan. R. P. Soulie, 1897". This locality 

 is in the northwestern finger of Yunnan on the Mekong River, in 



