278 NEW MAMMALS ANT) BIRDS 



Cryptolopha muelleri, sp. nov. In general appearance 

 resembling the preceding species but differing in having the 

 rump, sides of the body and under tail coverts bright sulphur 

 yellow, the scapulars and lower back olive green and the outer 

 tail feathers edged and tipped with white. In these parti- 

 culars it resembles C. castoneiceps (Hddgs.) 20 of the Hima- 

 layas, from which it is separated by the cinnamon chestnut of 

 the lores, sides of the head and car coverts, which are white or 

 grey in that species. 



Dimensions: — Total length, 98; wing, 53; tail, 41; tar- 

 sus, 18; bill from gape, 13 mm. (in dried skin). 



Type: — Adult male, Xo. 2088, collected at Barong Bharu, 

 Barisan Range, 4,000 feet, West Sumatra, on June 8th 1014. 

 by H. C. Robinson and C. Bod en Kloss. 



Specimen* examined: — One, the type. 

 DICAEIDAE. 



Dicaeum beccarii, sp. nov. Allied to D. ignipectus 21 



from the Himalayas and the Malay Peninsula, but differing in 

 the entire absence of red in the plumage and in the reduction 

 of the black abdominal patch, which is without gloss. 



Dimensions: — Male, total length, 02: wing, 50; tail. 34: 

 tarsus, 14: bill from gape, 10 mm. (measured in flesh). 



Type: — Adult male, Xo. 1,171, collected on Korinchi 

 Peak, at 7,300 feet, West Sumatra, on 20th April 1914, by 

 II. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss. 



Specim ens exa m in ed : - Three. 



20. Abromis castaneieeps, Hodgs, in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844). 



21. Mvzanthe ignipectus, Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xx, p 

 D83 (1843). 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 73, 1916 



