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both above and below, and the thighs blue, of a cobalt tint in certain 

 lights ; all the primaries and secondaries fringed with white at their 

 tips ; upper tail-coverts light cobalt-blue, with a broad bar of black 

 at their tips ; two centre tail-feathers cobalt-blue, broadly tipped 

 with white ; the lateral feathers blue at their bases, to which suc- 

 ceeds a broad band of black, beyond which they are snow-white ; 

 bill and legs blood-red. 



Total length, 21 inches; bill. If; wing, 7i ; tail, 14^; tarsi. If. 



Remark. — In size this fine new species is about equal to the Uro- 

 cissa sinensis, but it differs from that and every other member of the 

 genus in its stouter bill and in the blue colouring of the entire body. 



Megal^ma nuchalis, Gould. 



Forehead dull olive ; immediately before the eye a small patch of 

 red ; throat sulphur-yellow ; remainder of the cheeks, the ear-coverts, 

 back of the neck, and a band across the lower part of the throat pale 

 greenish blue, to which succeeds a band of red, separating the sulphur- 

 yellow of the throat from the yellowish green of the under surface ; 

 upper surface and tail green, with an obscure patch of red on the 

 mantle ; primaries blackish brown, externally margined with green ; 

 bill blackish horn- colour, except the base of the under mandible, 

 which is sulphur -yellow ; legs olive-black. 



Total length, 7Yin. ; bill, I5; wing, 4^; tail, 2| ; tarsi, 1. 



Remark. — This very distinctly marked species is about the size of 

 Megalcema asiatica. 



Picus iNSuiiARis, Gould. 



Male: forehead crossed by a narrow band of bufp; crown of the 

 head scarlet ; lores, cheeks, sides of the neck, and throat white ; a 

 black line, commencing at the base of the lower mandible, passes 

 down between the ear-coverts and the throat, on to the sides of the 

 chest, where it forms a broad patch ; flanks buffy white, strongly 

 striated with black ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 rosy scarlet ; mantle, shoulders, upper tail-coverts, and four middle 

 tail-feathers black ; centre of the back white, crossed with irregular 

 rays of black, as in Picus leuconotus ; wings black, spotted with white 

 on both webs of the feathers, as in that species ; outer tail-feathers 

 alternately barred with black and white ; bill bluish horn-colour ; 

 tarsi and feet lead-colour. 



Total length, 9^ inches ; bill, 1-^; wing, .5f ; tail, 2>\; tarsi, f. 



Female like the male in every respect, except in having a black 

 instead of a red crown. 



Remark. — This species is nearly allied to the Picus leuconotus, 

 but is very distinct from that and every other member of the Picidce 

 I have yet seen ; and it is certainly not included in the great work 

 on this family of birds just completed by M. Malherbe. 



Gecinxjs tancolo, Gould. 



Lores, a narrow band across the forehead, back part of the head, 

 nape, and a stripe down the cheeks black ; centre of the forehead 



