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Show 214 DR. J. ANDERSON ON NEW BIRDS FROM YUNAN. [Feb. 21, is distinct from H. psaroides, but I have not sufficient materials decide this question. I have a specimen of H. psaroides from Simla so light-coloured on the under surface that it might be correctly described as pale slaty white. BAMBUSICOLA FYTCHII, n. sp. (Plate XI.) J . Pileo brunneo-ferrugineo : fascia lata superciliari in fronte conjuncta utrinque elongata, albescenti-cinerea ; fascia pone oculos nigra: auchenio cinnamomeo : interscapularibus et tectricibus alarum cinereo-olivaceis, maculis subtriquetris rufo-brunneis, terminatis et plumis brunneo-nigro obscure lineolatis : dorso, uropygio et tectricibus cauda superioribus cinereo-olivaceis, nigro-brunneo transversim obscure nitideque notatis vel subfasciatis, nigro parce maculatis, maculis triangularibus albescente cinereo terminalis : rectricibus cinnamomeis, duabus mediis nigro-brunneo undulatim fasciatis, fasciis ochraceis pallide marginatis duabus sequentibus nigro-brunneo obscure lineolatis: loris, mento gulaque pallide ochraceis : jugulo rufo-ochraceo et cinnamomeo longitudinaliter vario : pectore lateribusque ejus cinnamomeis ocellatis et nigro parce maculatis: pectore, ventre crissoque pallide rufescenti-albis, maculis magnis subrotundatis et nigris hypochondriorum plumarum maculis permagnis et triangularibus : remigibus cinnamomeis, secundariorum marginibus externis brunneo et cinereo obscure marmoratis: remigibus tertiariis rufo-brunneis, apicibus extensis nigris et albescente cinereo tenuiter marginatis marginibus externis cinereo et albo tenuiter marmoratis. Long, tota 12, alae 5*80, caudae 4*20, tarsi 1*58, rostri a rictu 9*5, a fronte *86. 2 . Cauda magis brunnea : fascia post oculos cinnamomea : calcari minuto. The structural characters of this bird are decidedly Bambusicoline ; but it is related in its colouring to Arboricola. Gould describes the spur of B. sonorivox as blunt; but it is very sharp in this species, and is indicated in the female by a small tubercle. The female is also distinguished from the male by the postorbital band being cinnamon instead of black. I procured this bird from the old rice-clearings on the hill-sides of Ponsee, at an elevation of 3000 feet. PYCNONOTUS XANTHORRHOUS, And. Proc. As. Soc. Beneal 1869, p. 265. & Ixus andersoni, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. v ser 4 1870, p. 175. ' ' ' Mauwyne, Yunan, 1700 feet; Ichang, Yangtsze river (Swinhoe). PHASIANUS SLADENI, MS. Phasianus sladeni, MS. Anderson; Elliot, P. Z S 1870 nn 404, 408. * 1P' |
