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Trichostoma finschi (Plate XI. fig. 1). It may be thus de- 
scribed :— 
& (Macassar). Chin and throat white, faintly tinged with 
very pale fulvous. Breast, abdomen, flanks, under wing- 
coverts, and thigh-coverts fulvous, tinged with rufous, pale 
near the mesial line. Under tail-coverts rusty fulvous, redder 
than the abdominal plumage. Head umber-brown, with a 
slight olive tinge. Space before the eye greyish white. Cheeks 
fulvous white. Back and uropygium rufous brown, the uro- 
pygial feathers being voluminous and fluffy, and terminally 
coloured pale rusty fulvous. Upper tail-coverts pure rust- 
colour. Quills and rectrices ruddy brown, the outer webs 
being distinctly rusty brown. The inner webs of the third and 
following quills with a pale rusty fulvous edging for part of their 
length, this edging being indicated at the base of the second 
quill. Wing-coverts ruddy brown. Legs, feet, claws, and 
lower mandible (in dried skins) pale yellowish white. Upper 
mandible horny brown, commissure and tip pale yellowish 
white. Iris (labelled) yellow. Wing 2°87 inches, tail 2°25, 
tarsus 1:0. Rictus armed with very long bristles. First pri- 
mary short, second about half an inch longer, third three 
eighths longer than second; fourth, fifth, and sixth longer 
than third, the fourth and sixth being nearly equal, and the 
fifth the longest. 
T. celebense, Strickl. (Menado) (Plate XI. f. 2). Whole head 
above, nape, back, uropygium, and major wing-coverts rich red- 
dish brown, purer brown on the head. The long loose uropy- 
gial feathers tipped with ferruginous. Rectrices and outer 
webs of the quills dark ferruginous chestnut (in another ex- 
ample the outer webs of the quills concolorous with dorsal plu- 
mage) ; inner webs brown. Lores ashy white. Cheeks and 
ear-coverts brown. Chin, throat, and ventral region white or 
ashy white. Breast pale cinereous. Flanks brown: Thigh- 
coverts and under tail-coverts hight rust-colour. Upper tail- 
coverts bright ferruginous. Legs, feet, and claws pale yel- 
lowish. Base of maxilla blackish brown; remainder, with 
mandible, pale horn-colour. Rictal bristles black, not very 
stiff, and extending beyond the basal half of the bill. Wing 

Lord Walden on a new. Species of Trichostoma. 


