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Mr. P. L, Sclater on the 
new species of the genus from Northern Celebes under the 
name P. aureolimbatus ; and more recently Dr. Salvadori has 
characterized another, from Borneo, as P. xanthopygius *. 
Thus far Prionochilus had been considered peculiar to the 
Malayan subdivision of the Indian Region, Celebes being 
debateable ground between that and the Papuan fauna. Last 
year, however, Lieut. W. Vincent Legge, R.A., a well-known 
worker in ornithology, sent me a pair of birds obtained in 
Southern Ceylon, which I at once recognized as belonging to 
this genus, and for which, at the Zoological Society^ meet¬ 
ing on the 18th of June, I proposed the specific name vincens , 
in honour of its discoverer f. 
Mr. Legge gave the following description of his bird :— 
“Male. Length 4-^"; tail 1*2"; wing 2*3"; tarsus*5"; mid 
toe with claw *5", hind toe ; bill to gape at front nearly 
*4". Third primary longest, only slightly longer than second. 
/<bft> “Descr. Iris reddish; bill, upper mandible black, lower 
mandible lightish at the base; legs and feet blackish brown; 
entire head (except the chin and throat), hind neck, back, 
rump, and lesser wing-coverts dull steel-blue, palest on the 
rump, and with the bases of the feathers dark; quills blackish 
brown, the basal portion of inner -webs, with the under wing- 
coverts, white; tertiaries, greater wing-coverts, and tail black, 
the former edged with the hue of the upper surface, the latter 
with the three outer feathers white towards the tip, the colour 
extending a little up the shaft on inner web, the next two 
with a small terminal white spot; chin, throat, and chest 
white, below which the under surface is saffron-yellow, paling 
at the vent; under tail-coverts white, edged pale yellow. « 
“ Female . Length 4* V'; wing tail IT". Bill slightly 
lighter in hue than S ; legs, feet, and iris the same as S’, head 
and hind neck faded bluish ashen, centres of feathers dark; 
back olivaceous brown; secondaries and wing-coverts brown, 
edged with olivaceous; quills lighter than in the male; sides 
of neck and chest ashy beneath, paler yellow than the male, 
mingled with grey on the flanks; tail brownish black.” 
Hob. Forests of the low hills in the southern province, 
* Cf. Ibis, 1872, p. 379. f P. Z. S. 1872, p. 729. 
