1846.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 51 



Hypsipetes malaccensis, nobis, but can scarcely be placed in a different 

 sub- generic group ; and I think it will rank best as an aberrant Hypsi- 

 petes, showing a marked affinity for Iole. The bill is rather shorter 

 than in H. malaccensis, and the coronal feathers tend less to assume 

 the pointed form : length about eight inches and a half, of wing from 

 three and a half to nearly four inches, and tail three inches and a half ; 

 bill to gape an inch, in some an eighth more ; tarse three-quarters 

 of an inch : the tail is a little graduated, but inclines to assume the true 

 Hypsipetes shape. Plumage of a uniform olive-green above, the crown 

 infuscated, or of a brownish-nigrescent hue : throat and breast dingy- 

 whitish, a little tinged with yellow ; the rest of the lower-parts more 

 deeply and conspicuously tinged with yellow. Bill dusky, with yellow 

 tomiae, and elsewhere an appearance of its becoming ultimately wholly 

 yellow : the tarsi plumbeous. The nestling tertiaries remaining on the 

 specimen formerly described, and the outer webs of the nestling prima- 

 ries, are of a dingy chesnut colour ; and there is a shade of the same 

 upon the tail. The same appears to be the case with the young of 

 H. malaccensis ; and the two species considerably resemble at first sight, 

 but the present may readily be distinguished by its infuscated crown, 

 and its unstreaked throat and breast. E. B. 



(To be continued.) 



Postscript. — I have already to acknowledge another interesting col- 

 lection, partly from the Nicobars and partly from Penang, just received 

 from our esteemed contributor, the Rev. J. Barbe. 



Among the birds, is a finer male of Palaornis erythrogenys (note to 

 p. 23, ante,) than that previously described ; having the nape and inter- 

 scapularies light yellowish, rather than tinged with hoary- grey, and 

 the under- parts also more yellowish than in the other.* 



Of Todiramphus occipitalis (loc. cit.J, it would seem that I described 

 females and young only ; for what I take to be the males are consider- 

 ably brighter, with the wings and tail much bluer, of a decided Prussian 

 blue, the black nuchal collar (continued from the ear-coverts) is much 

 narrower, and in some tinged with blue, and the white supercilia (carri- 

 ed round the occiput) have little or even no tinge of rufous. 



* Dr. Cantor possesses a female of P. caniceps, nobis floe cit.J, from the Malay 

 peninsula. It has the tail developed to the usual length in this genus; and green 

 above with some blue on its middle feathers, and dull golden-yellowish below; the 

 head less pure grey than in the male ; and the bill wholly black, as I suggested it 

 would be in this sex. 



