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Show 1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON N E W BIRDS FROM YUNAN. 213 Long, tota 7, alee 1*87, caudae 4, tarsi *85, rostri a rictu '60, fronte *44. Hab. Momien, Yunan, ad alt. circiter 5000 ped. Angl. The bright supercilium and the faintly black-spotted breast are the distinguishing characters of this species. Olive-brown above, the head and nape faintly washed with black ; supercilia white ; lores black ; chin, throat, and breast white, tinged with rufous; breast indistinctly spotted with black; abdomen and under tail-coverts reddish brown; wings and tail brown, margined with rufous; shafts of the tail-feathers black. CULICIPETA TEPHROCEPHALUS, n. sp. C. similis C. burkii sed pileo et nucha cinereis, lateribus lororum nigro fasciatis. Alae 2*10, caudae 1*90, tarsi *72, rostri a rictu *54, a fronte 4. Hab. Bhamo, Burmah. This species resembles G. burkii, but has the head and nape cinereous, with a black band along their lateral margin, as in C. burkii. The latter is slightly duller green. HYPSIPETES YUNANENSIS, n. sp. II. nigra : pileo, cervice et inter scapularibus nigro-metallicis : medio uropygioque fusco-nigris, cinereo tinctis: plumis cinereo pallide marginatis: tectricibus caudce superioribus fusco-nigris, cinereo pallide tinctis : subtus fusco-cinerea, brunneo-nigro notata abdominis lateribus cinereo-plumbeis : tectricibus caudce inferioribus cinereis albo marginatis : tectricibus alarum brunneo-nigris remigibus et rectricibus nigro-brunneis et remigibus cinereo limbatis. Long, tota 10, alae 5, cauda 4*50, tarsi "70, rostri a rictu 1*16, a fronte *90. Hab. Ponsee, Yunan, ad alt. circiter 3500 ped. Angl. Black ; head, neck, and interscapular region metallic black; middle of back and rump dusky black, tinged with cinereous; the feathers margined with cinereous; upper tail-coverts brownish black, feebly tinged with cinereous; below dark cinereous spotted with brownish black ; sides of the abdomen slaty cinereous; under tail-coverts ashy-margined with white; wing-coverts brownish black; wing and tail blackish brown, the primaries narrowly margined with cinereous ; bill, legs, and feet coral-red, claws dusky; irides bright reddish brown. This bird is intermediate between H. psaroides and H. ganeesa, but is most closely allied to the latter. It is also nearly allied to H. nigerrima, Gould, with which I have compared it. It is a larger bird than any of the foregoing species. It is also a much greyer bird generally than the H. perniger, Swinhoe, and considerably larger. Blyth's II. concolor is so imperfect in every way that I do not attempt to supplement his meagre description. I have all the species of this group before me, and agree with Blyth that H. neilgherriensis, Jerdon, is the same as H. ganeesa, Sykes; and I believe it to be extremely doubtful whether the latter |