NEW GENUS OF SILVIADtE. 



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abdominal neck and the breast vinous buff, a blackish stripe like a moustache 

 behind the gape ; belly, rump and under tail coverts deep rusty ; remiges 

 and rectrices internally dusky ; inner basal margins of the quills pale buff ; 

 lining of wings white ; legs orange ; bill fleshy red ; iris brown ; head with 

 a full soft crest, as in the preceding : size 5i by 7^ inches and ^ oz. in 

 weight ; bill inch ; tarsus ; central toe '•> ^ii^^ tt- a 



Species 3d. Yuhina ? Flavicollis ; Yellow-necked Yuhin, nobis. 



Above obscure brown, with a slaty tinge ; cap pure rich brown ; cheeks 

 and nape paler ; back of the neck rusty yellow, continued in a collar round 

 the sides and front of the neck, and thence spread over the lower surface of 

 the body and diluted often to white ; chin and throat white ; moustache 

 dark brown ; remiges and rectrices internally dusky ; the primaries edged 

 externally with white on the outer webs, and all paled internally on the inner, 

 as in both the preceding species ; lining of wings white ; sides of body shaded 

 with brownish ; legs yellowish fleshy grey ; bill fleshy brown ; iris brown ; 

 head crested as in both the preceding species ; bill shorter, less acuminated, 

 and furnished with only one salient process on each side the tip of the upper 

 mandible of the bill : size 5^ by 7^ inches, and less than ^ an oz. in weight. 



The following is a detail of the dimensions of a fine male specimen of 



Yuhina Gularis, and which may serve to indicate the proportions of all the 

 three species : 



Inches. Frac. 



Tip bill to tip tail, 

 Bill length of, . . . . 



basa'l height of, 

 ditto breadth of, 



Tail, 



Expanse of wings, 



Tarsus, 



Central toe, . . . . 



and nail, > . . 



lliud toe, 



and nail, 



Weight, 



f oz, 



[For sketch of the bill and foot see plate.] 



