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•Parits subviridis, Tickell, n. s. Affined to P. xanthogenis and P. 

 spilonotus -, but the whole of the under-parts dull yellowish-green with- 

 out a trace of black, passing to ashy on the vent and lower tail-coverts : 

 back much the same, but darker, with the feathers centred yellower, 

 imparting a mottled appearance: crown and nape black, a few of the 

 posterior long crest-feathers tipped with yellow : feathers at base of bill, 

 the lores, cheeks and sides of neck, supercilia, and mesial nape-streak, 

 bright yellow : wings and tail dull black, the great alars and caudala 

 margined with ashy, and two or three of the primaries with whitish ; 

 a conspicuous white patch also at the base of the primaries ; and the 

 tertiaries are tipped on the outer web with an elongate whitish spot, this 

 hue also extending up the inner web of the smallest tertiary : the smallest 

 wing-coverts are tipped with ashy, and the first great range of wing- 

 coverts with white upon both webs, the second range upon the outer web 

 only ; forming two cross-bands on the wing : the anterior half of the wing 

 is white underneath, but the axillaries are light yellow : the outermost 

 tail-feather has its exterior web dull white, and a spot of the same tipping 

 the inner web ; this spot being successively smaller on the penultimate 

 and ante-penultimate tail-feathers : bill black ; and legs plumbeous. 

 Length about 4f in. ; of wing 2f in. ; and tail 2 in. : longest crest-feathers 

 fin. 



" Shot at an elevation of 3,500 ft. The Pari are very uncommon in 

 the Tenasserim forests. In fact," remarks Capt. Tickell, "this is the 

 only one I have seen." 



Pteruthius jsralatus, Tickell, n. s. Quite similar to Pt. erythrop- 

 terus of the Himalaya, excepting that the latter has constantly the 

 tertiaries wholly ferruginous in both sexes. In the Tenasserim bird, the 

 female has the tertiaries greenish golden-yellow, like the secondaries, 

 with merely a tinge of ferruginous upon the shaft and on the inner web 

 only of each; and the male differs from that of the Himalayan 

 bird by having nearly the whole outer webs of the tertiaries bright 

 golden-yellow, the smallest having also a black tip and inner edge, the 

 next a black tip to the outer web only, the third and longest an oblique 

 and elongated black tip to the outer web only, and the feather succeeding 

 this (or last of the secondaries) has also a mark f in. long on its outer 

 web of mingled ferruginous and golden-yellow. We also cannot perceive, 

 in the male sent by Capt. Tickell, any trace of the carneous tinge, seen 

 particularly on the flanks posteriorly of Pt. erythropterus ; and the 

 female has the under-parts, with the exception of the white throat only, 

 much more fulvescent than the under-parts of the female Pt. erythrop- 

 terus. The two species or races indeed manifest much the same relation- 



