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Mr. Grant also exhibited and made remarks on some of 

 the more remarkable new birds obtained by the late Mr. John 

 Whitehead on the Five-finger Mountains in the interior 

 of Hainan. Most of these, such as the splendid Silver 

 Pheasant (Genneeus whiteheadi) and the new Night-Heron 

 {Nycticorax magnified), had already been described in the 

 October number of 'The Ibis' for this year (pp. 584-587), 

 but iu that paper the description of a fine new species of 

 Urocissa had been omitted. Mr. Grant now proposed to 

 describe it as 



Urocissa whiteheadi, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Head, back, fore-neck, and chest 

 dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and shading 

 into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff on 

 the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts ; 

 feathers of the crown rounded at the extremity and edged 

 with whitish brown ; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts 

 black tipped with white ; wings black, except the lesser and 

 median wing-coverts, which are white, save at the base ; tips 

 of the primary-quills, margins of terminal half of outer 

 webs of secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts 

 pure white; middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with 

 white, and with a sub- terminal black band, the outer feathers 

 similarly marked, but with the white tips increasing in size 

 and shaded with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 clear yellowish white. Iris straw-colour; bill red, shading 

 into brownish yellow at the base ; feet dark brown. Total 

 length about 180 inches, culmen l - 9, wing 8*2, tail 9*4, 

 tarsus 1'95. 



Hab. Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan. 



Mr. Grant further described a new species of Thick-knee 

 from Southern Arabia, obtained during the recent expedition 

 undertaken by Mr. A. Blayney Percival and the late Mr. W. 

 Dodson : — 



