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Mr. Grant also exhibited and made remarks on some ot 
the more remarkable new birds obtained by the late Mr. John 
M hitehead on the Five-finger Mountains in the interior 
of Hainan. Most of these, such as the splendid Silver 
Pheasant [Gennceus whiteheadi) and the new Night-Heron 
{Nycticorax magnified), had already been described in the 
October number of ^The Ibis’ for this year (pp. 58Jr-587), 
but in that paper the description of a fine new species of 
Urocissa had been omitted. Mr. Grant now proposed to 
describe it as 
Urocissa whiteheadi, sp. n. 
Adult male and female. Plead, back, fore-neck, and chest 
dark earthy brown, darkest on the ear-coverts, and shading 
into grey on the sides and flanks, and into yellowish buff on 
the middle of the breast, belly, and under tail-coverts ; 
feathers of the crown rounded at the extremity and edged 
with whitish brown; rump greyish brown ; upper tail-coverts 
black tipped with white ; wings black, except the lesser and 
median wing-coverts, which are white, save at the base ; tips 
of the primary-quills, margins of terminal half of outer 
webs of secondaries, and the tips of the greater wing-coverts 
pure white; middle tail-feathers grey, widely tipped with 
white, and with a sub-terminal black band, the outer feathers 
similarly marked, but with the white tips increasing in size 
and shaded with yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
clear yellowish wdiite. Iris straw-colour; bill red, shading 
into brownish yellow at the base ; feet dark brown. Total 
length about 18 0 inches, culmen 1’9, wing 8'2, tail 9'4, 
tarsus 1'95. 
Hab. Five-finger Mountains, interior of Hainan. 
Mr. Grant further described a new species of Thick-knee 
from Southern Arabia, obtained during the recent cxjiedition 
undertaken by Mr. A. Blayney Percival and the late Mr. W. 
Dodson : — 
