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grass-green (fading to pale blue) ; quills and their coverts 

 rich orange-maroon (fading to pale dull olive-green) ; the 

 six innermost secondaries tipped with grass-green^ increasing 

 in width inwards, the innermost being entirely grass-green 

 (fading to greyish-blue) ; tail-feathers olive-green (fading to 

 pale blue), widely tipped with greij, and with a wide sub- 

 terminal black band on the five outer pairs. The middle pair 

 is incomplete. 



Total length ca. 13'0 inches (middle tail-feathers incom- 

 plete); culmen 1"5 ; wing 5'5; tail to the end of the second 

 pair of feathers 5*2; tarsus 1*8. 



Hah. Bali Region^ Interior of Annam. No. 110. 



This remarkable species is named in honour of Mrs. Vassal. 



Dryonastes vassali, sp. n. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to D. germaini, Oust., from 

 Cochin China, but the breast and flanks dirty drab-colour 

 (not olive-chestnut), shading into white on the middle of the 

 belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; the basal part of the 

 tail-feathers olive-grey (not olive-chestnut) ; and the tail and 

 the wide white tips followed by a still wider subterminal 

 black band. 



Total length 11*5 inches; wing 4*1 ; tail 4*8; tarsus \Q. 



Hah. Bali Region, Interior of Annam. No. 107. 



GENNiEUS ANNAMENSIS, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to G. belt, Oust., but 

 with the concentric white markings on the upperparts 

 apparently finer and more numerous^ especially on the wings, 

 which have a much blacker appearance. None of the 

 feathers of the lower back and rump fringed with white. 

 A ivide band of lanceolate white feathers on each side of the 

 neck, commencing below the cheek and extending to the 

 flanks and dividing the black fore-neck and breast from 

 the concentrically marked black and white feathers of the 

 hind-neck, &c. The tail shorter than in G. andersoni, the 

 tips and inner webs of the two middle pairs soiled white 

 finely pencilled with black next to the shaft, and all the 

 outermost feathers clearly marked with wavy oblique white 



