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brown ; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible 

 reddish-brown ; feet dark brown. 



Total length 3-3 inches, wino- 17, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. Eastern Ruwenzori^ 6,000 feet. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also sent the following descriptions 

 of new species of birds which had been collected in the high- 

 lands of Central Formosa by Mr. Walter Goodfellow : — 



Xanthopygia afpinis, subsp. n. 



Ad. ^ . Closely resembles the male of X. fuliginosa 

 (Vigors), but the lores are less black, being scarcely darker 

 than the crown, and the tips of the tail-feathers are usually 

 dusky. Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet brownish. 



Total length ca. 5*5, wing 3-2, tail 2*3^ tarsus 0*95. 



Ad. ? . Differs from the female of X. fuliginosa in 

 having the underparts much greyer^ with the white 

 squamate markings much less pronounced, and confined 

 to the middle of the belly ; the tail-feathers with much 

 less white at the base, the white on the outer pair not 

 extending on to the terminal half. 



Total length ca. 5*5, wing 3*0, tail 2.2, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. Mt. Morrison, 6,000 feet. 



Ianthia johnstoni^, sp. n. 



Ad. (^ . Entire head and throat blacky shading into 

 blackish-slate on the hind neck ; a lengthened white 

 eyebrow-stripe commencing above the lores, and continued 

 backwards over the ear-coverts along the sides of the 

 occiput ; a band of feathers bordering the throat, and the 

 hind-neck, as well as the scapulars, bright chestnut-maroon, 

 shading into orange towards the base of the feathers ; rest 

 of the back black, deep slate-grey in the middle, rump 

 feathers tipped with orange-buff ; rest of the underparts 

 dull brownish-orange, middle of the belly and under tail- 

 coverts white ; wings brownish-black edged with greyish- 

 olive on the outer webs of the quills ; tail black. Iris 

 dark brown. 



