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gined externally with rufous. Lores and streak over eye greyish ; 

 chin and throat dirty white ; breast and sides pale olive-brown ; belly 

 pale fulvous ; vent and lower tail-covers light rufous ; upper man- 

 dible fuscous, lower yellowish; feet and claws yellowish brown. 

 Total length, 6 inches ; beak to front, 10 lines ; to gape, 1 inch ; 

 height, 3 lines ; breadth, 3| lines ; wing, 2 inches 10 lines ; medial 

 rectrices, 2\ inches ; external ditto, 2 inches ; tarsus, 1 inch ; middle 

 toe and claw, 1 1 lines ; hind ditto, 9 lines. 



Malacopteron macrodactylum, Strickland in Ann. Nat. Hist., v. xiii. 

 p. 4 17. — Since described as Brachypteryx albogularis by Dr. Hartlaub, 

 Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401. It is however a true Malacopteron, which 

 genus differs from the type of Brachypteryx by its shorter legs and 

 by the beak, in which the shrike-like form is developed to the greatest 

 extent of all the Timaliince. Brachypteryx sepiaria of Horsf. is a 

 Malacopteron*. 



Timalia pectoralis, Blyth (= Malacopteron squamatuniy Eyton). 



Timalia nigricollis. Tern. PI. Col. 594. f. 2. {Brachypteryx nigrogu- 

 laris, Eyton ; Timalia erythronotus, Blyth), — This is a typical Timalia. 



Timalia erythroptera, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. {Timalia pyr- 

 rhophaa, Hartl. ; Brachypteryx acutirostris, Eyton). — A true Timalia. 



Amadina acuticauda, Hodgs. in Asiatic Researches, v. xix. — A 

 well-marked species intermediate between A. striata, Lin., and A. 

 punctularia, Lin. 



Agapornis? malaccensis, Lath. sp. — In the descriptions hitherto 

 given of this bird no mention is made of the deep brownish red 

 feathers on the radial margin of the wing. Mr. Blyth makes of 

 this bird his genus Psittinus. 



Tiga Rafflesi, Vig. — The only description which I can find of this 

 curious bird is in the classified list given by Mr. Vigors of the ani- 

 mals of Java and Sumatra, published in the Appendix to the edition 

 of the * Life of Sir Stamford Raffles.' As few persons think of look- 

 ing into a biographical work for a treatise on zoology, this paper is 

 less known than it deserves to be, and I therefore extract the dia- 

 gnosis given by Mr. Vigors of the species before us : — 



Picus RAFFLESI, Vig., 1. c. p. 669. P. supra flavescenti-brunneus, 

 subtus brunneus ; capite coccineo ; gula pallide ferruginea ; 

 strigis, una ab oculis, secunda a rictu extendentibus maculisque 

 ad latera abdominis albis ; strigis duabus ad latera genarum, 

 altera parvd superciliari ; remigibus rectricibusque nigris. 

 The specimen before me is a female, and has the crown and elon- 

 gated crest-feathers wholly deep black ; the upper parts are yellowish 

 olive and the lower olive-brown ; all the remiges have three round 

 white spots on the inner webs of each ; the lower wing-covers are 

 pale yellowish, margined with brown. In all other respects the bird 

 agrees with the description above-quoted. Its total length is 10^ 



* Mr. Blyth makes my M. macrodactylum the type of his genus Turdinus, but 

 1 cannot approve of genera founded on such very slight distinctions. 



