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Show 1879.] ON A NEW SPECIES OF DROM.EOCERCUS. 177 8. On a second Species of Dromceocercus from Madagascar. By R. B O W D L E R SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c, Department of Zoology, British Museum. [Beceived February 4, 1879.] In the same collection as the Heliodilus, described in the preceding paper, there were several specimens of a Feather-tailed Warbler belonging to the genus Dromceocercus, instituted by me in January 18/7*. On comparing the birds recently sent with the type of Dromceocercus brunneus, it is evident that they belong to a different speries, for which I propose the name of Dromceocercus seebohmi, after m y friend Mr. Seebohm, who is now associated with me in the ' Catalogue of Birds.' Of this he is about to prepare the volume ou the Thrushes and Warblers, with which two groups he has shown already such a good acquaintance. DROMCEOCERCUS SEEBOHMI, sp. n. D. similis D. brunneo et ejusdem formee, sed corpore supra maculato nee concolori, plumis brunneis medialiter obscurioribus et gutture albo, brunneo striato, distinguendus. General colour above dark brown with edges of lighter brown, producing a mottled appearance, the rump and upper tail-coverts more uniform ; tail-feathers rufous-brown with stiffened black shafts, the feathers loose-webbed, as is usual in this genus; wing-coverts and quills blackish brown, margined with lighter brown; lores whitish; ear-coverts and sides of neck ashy brown; under surface of body dull white, shaded with ashy brown on the sides of the breast; sides of body and under tail-coverts rather more fulvous-brown; fore neck with small but distinct spots of dusky brown, the sides of the body more largely and distinctly streaked ; under wing-coverts ashy brown, the edge of the wing white ; quills dull brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5*9 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1*95, tail 3 1 , tarsus 0*7. Hab. Neighbourhood of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Some of the specimens exhibit less mottling on the back than others; but it is always more or less strongly characterized, as also is the light-coloured throat, which has the stripes more distinctly indicated in some specimens than in others. Since describing the original specimen of Dromceocercus brunneus, I have seen several others collected by the late Mr. Crossley ; and with some of these, in Mr. Seebohm's cabinet, I have compared the series of the new species. 1 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 22, pi. ii. fig. 2. P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1879, No. XII. 12 |