114 Extracts from Correspondence, Notices, fyc. 
many scarce birds, such as the curious Toucan (Andigena lami- 
nirostris), some rare Tanagers ( Saltator atripennis and Buar- 
remon leucopterus), and several undescribed species of different 
families. But the most remarkable thing in the collection, and 
indeed one of the most extraordinary birds lately discovered, is a 
new Umbrella-bird ( Cephalopterus ) with a very elongated throat- 
lappet, nearly as long as the whole body of the bird. This we 
propose to call Cephalopterus penduliger* . It will be described 
at length, and its differences from the two previously known 
species ( Cephalopterus ornatus and C. glabricollis) pointed out, 
in the report on Mr. Fraser’s collections submitted to the Zoolo¬ 
gical Society. Meanwhile the accompanying figure by Mr. 
Wolf (PI. III.) will give a good idea of its strange appearance. 
M. Mouhot de Montbeilliard of Jersey has safely arrived at 
Bangkok, whence he was preparing to start, as soon as the dry 
season should commence, to explore the natural productions of 
the unknown interior of the kingdom of Siam. His first col¬ 
lections may be expected very shortly. His agent is Mr. S. 
Stevens, of 24 Bloomsbury Street. 
A letter from Mr. Blyth of the Calcutta Museum, dated in June 
last, announces the arrival of some interesting novelties from the 
Andaman Islands :—“ Among the birds I received a handsome 
new Shawa ( Kittacincla albiventris, nobis). Form typical, but 
with the four medial tail-feathers much less elongated than in K. 
macroura; the abdominal region, tibial plumes, axillaries, and fore¬ 
part of wing underneath pure white; vent and lower coverts only, 
and hindermost portion of the flanks deep ferruginous, as in the 
other : otherwise like K. macroura Mr. Blyth also speaks of 
a new Pheasant which he has described as Diardigallus fas- 
ciolatus. Five males were brought alive to Calcutta, supposed 
* It is smaller considerably than C. ornatus, measuring—whole length 
14^ inches, wing 9^, tail 4\, bill from front 1‘7, tarsus 1*8, throat-lappet 
8 ^. The corresponding measurements of a fine specimen of C. ornatus in 
Mr. Gould’s collection are, whole length 17^inches, wing 11, tail 6^-, bill from 
front 1 '9, tarsus 2’1, throat-lappet 4'0. In C . penduliger the throat-lappet 
is long and narrow, and there is no bare space on the neck ; in C. ornatus 
the lappet is short and broad, covering a naked space ; in C. glabricollis 
the whole fore-neck and chest as well as the basal part of the lappet itself 
are denuded. In C. penduliger, again, the under wing-coverts are partly 
white, in C. ornatus they are quite black. 
