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Show 1873.] MR. SHARPE ON THREE NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS. 625 8. On three new Species of Birds. By R. B. SHARPE, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British Museum. [Received June 13, 1873.] C H A M ^ E T Y L A S P R I N C E I , sp. n. Olive-brown on head and hind neck, gradually shading off into rufous brown on the rest of the back and tail, the latter slightly tipped with white on the two outermost feathers; wing-coverts a little more golden brown than the back, with large white triangular spots at the tips of the greater and median series ; quills blackish brown, shaded externally with golden brown, the secondaries more broadly ; lores, sides of face, and feathers round the eye white, with a line of black drawn across the side face, and another behind the ear; a narrow indication of moustachial feathers ; chin, centre of the body, flanks, and under tail-coverts white; throat, chest, and sides of body ochreous brown, the latter washed with olive; small under wing-coverts white, with broad black tips, the greater ones black at base, white at tip; primaries white at base of inner web ; bill horn-black, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; feet yellowish. Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 4*1, tail 3*1, tarsus 1*25. Hab. Denkera, in the interior of Fantee. The type is in the British Museum. It seems of the same form as Geocichla compsonota, Cassin (Pr. Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 42), which Heine has made the type of his genus Chameetylas. This is conjectural, as no specimen of C. compsonota is on this side of the Atlantic, so far as I know. Cassin, however, describes his bird as a Geocichla with a thick bill, which answers to m y specimen. The colours, however, are totally different. This new species is dedicated to m y old and valued friend M r. Edwin C. Prince, for more than forty years the faithful coadjutor of M r . John Gould. BAZA ERYTHROTHORAX, sp. n. Baza magnirostris (nee Gray), Wall. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 337 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 40, 75, pl. 25. figs. 4, 5 (1866); Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 18 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 36 (1872). Hab. Celebes. This species differs from the trne B. magnirostris oi the Philippines in its much larger size, dark brown colour, black head, and dark cinereous ear-coverts, in wanting the grey on the chest, and in the dark rufous brown of the under surface. This latter colour is especially distinct on the chest, the sides of the body and flanks having a few white cross bars. Measurements as follows :-Total length 17*5 inches, culmen 125, wing 11-5, tail 8*0, tarsus 1*65. Mr. Wallace (/. c.) gives the following note on the soft parts :- " Bill lead-colour, black above ; feet white ; iris yellow." The types are in the British Museum, which now possesses examples of every species of Baza. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1873, No. XL. 40 |
