568 Notices and Descriptions 0/ various new [No. 164. 



dusky, and feet appear to have been reddish-brown. Two specimens are 

 perhaps distinct, though very closely allied. In these the greenish tinge 

 is wanting, even on the wings and tail, and there is no ashy tinge on 

 the head, the feathers of which are much less scale-like ; the lower 

 tail-coverts also have a less decided tinge of ochreous, and the throat 

 is much less albescent. In other respects they are similar. These 

 are from Malacca, and the former from Singapore. Should they prove 

 distinct, the second may bear the specific name of brunneus.* One or 

 both are probably alluded to as one of two varieties of P. goiavier, (v. 

 Tardus analis, Horsf.,) mentioned by Sir Stamford Raffles. 



12. P. flavescens, nobis. So like the next in its general charac- 

 ters and colouring, that it might be supposed to be the female of that 

 species, differing from the male in wanting the yellow spots on the 

 throat, and the yellowish colour on the crown, were it not that the tail 

 is always considerably more graduated, its outermost feathers measur- 

 ing three-quarters of an inch shorter than the middle ones ; whereas 

 in P. Finlaysoni the difference is but half as much : it would, besides, 

 be contrary to the analogy of all its congeners, for the sexes to pre- 

 sent so marked a difference. Length about seven inches and three- 

 quarters, of wing three and a quarter, and tail four inches; bill to 

 gape seven-eighths of an inch, and tarse three-quarters of an inch. 

 Colour dull greenish-olive above, the crown darker, with broader and 

 more rounded coronal feathers than in P. Finlaysoni ; alars margined 

 with brighter yellowish-green, and caudals less decidedly : under-parts 

 paler, mingled with dull yellow, imparting a streaky appearance; the 

 vent and lower tail-coverts bright yellow, paling on the belly : lores 

 blackish, surmounted with yellowish-white. Bill and feet dark. Hab. 

 Arracan, where much less common than the next species. 



13. P. Finlaysoni, Strickland, An. and Mag. N. H., 1844, p. 411. 

 Common in Arracan. 



14. P. zantholaimus, Jerdon, MS. Length seven inches and a 

 quarter and upwards, of wing three inches to three and a half, and 

 tail three and a quarter to three and a half; bill to gape three-quarters 

 of an inch to thirteen-sixteenths, and tarse three-quarters to seven- 

 eighths. Upper parts ashy, tinged with green on the wings and tail, 

 the crown yellowish-green, and throat and fore-neck pale yellow ; 



* Since the above was printed, I have received from Lord Arthur Hay a specimen 

 of this brunneus, labelled by his lordship Brachypus modestus, A. Hay. 



