. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . tion to our IndianAvifauna has been made for many a long day, and its discoveryis one of the results of the systematic ornithological survey, of the Tenasserim Provinces which for the past two years hasbeen vigorously prosecuted by my curator Mr. WilliamDavison and my whole staff. Though conspicuously different from any one of them, this newspecies is most nearly allied to P. cyanura, Gmel., {guaianus,P. L. S. Mull.), P. Schivaneri, Tem., and P. Boschi, B. Mull.—(?elegans, Lesson). There is the same cuneiform blue tail,
. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . tion to our IndianAvifauna has been made for many a long day, and its discoveryis one of the results of the systematic ornithological survey, of the Tenasserim Provinces which for the past two years hasbeen vigorously prosecuted by my curator Mr. WilliamDavison and my whole staff. Though conspicuously different from any one of them, this newspecies is most nearly allied to P. cyanura, Gmel., {guaianus,P. L. S. Mull.), P. Schivaneri, Tem., and P. Boschi, B. Mull.—(?elegans, Lesson). There is the same cuneiform blue tail, the same compara-tively small bill, the same more or less rufous olivaceoustipper surface, the same difference in the sexes, an orangebrown replacing on the head of the female, the more markedcolours of that portion of the male, and, lastly, the female(though not the male) has the lower surface banded verysimilarly to that of the female of P. cyanura. Of the habits and haunts of this and other species I shalldeal when presenting (as I hope to be able to do next year). Stria- Feathers Vol M. PI 111 BRACHYURUS GURNEYI, ib>». NOVELTIES. 297 a complete list of the birds of the Tenasseritn Provinces ; in themeantime the following are the dimensions (recorded in theflesh) and descriptions of both sexes :— Male.—Length, 8*25 to 8*75 ; expanse, 1345 to 140 ; tail,from vent, 2*05 to 2*5; wing, 40 to 4-2; tarsus, 155 to165 ; bill, from gape, 1*1 to 1*15 ; weight, 2 to 3 oz. The bill is black; the legs, feet and claws fleshy white; theiris very dark brown. The forehead, the anterior half of the crown, the lores,cheeks, and ear-coverts, stripe over the eye, and collar roundback of the neck, (almost hidden by the long full occipitalcrest,) breast, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts all velvet black,the largest of the latter tipped with blue; posteiior half ofcrown, occiput, and full occipital crest glossy lazuline blue,much like that of Irena puella ; tail and upper tail-coverts blue
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