DESCRIPTION OF TWO SPECIES OF BIRDS 

 FROM THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. 



By a. B. MEYER, M.D., C.M.Z.S., 

 Director of the Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden. 



ZEOCEPHUS ROWLEYI, n. sp. 



Schistaceo-cyaneuSj subtus pallidior, albescens. 



Upper parts bluish, brighter on the back ; wing-feathers blackish grey, 

 margins of the outer webs greyish blue, of the inner whitish. Underparts 

 light pale blue, somewhat whitish on the belly ; wing-feathers beneath grey, 

 margins of the outer webs and under wing-coverts white. Rectrices bluish 

 grey above, outer webs blue, of the same colour as the back ; beneath grey. 

 Bill blackish, under mandible paler. Bristles very long, some reaching the 

 tip of the bill. Feet and claws greyish. 



Total length 180 millims., bill 13, wing 96, tail 92, tarsus 21. 



Hah. Great Sangi, Sangi Islands. 



The Dresden Museum possesses one specimen of this apparently new 

 species, which may perhaps belong to the genus Philentoma, Eyton, or 

 another genus allied to Monarcha or Myiagra. The bill is rather short 

 for a Zeocephus, and rather broad for a typical Philentoma. The species 

 appears to agree in coloration with Zeocephus cyanescens, Sharpe, from the 



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