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leaving only tlie middle of the abdomen white. Ear-eoverts deep dusky olive, no 

 white superciliary lino, only a few tiny tijis of feathers above the eye beini; white. 

 Under wing-coverts and inner edges of (piills butt'. Ijegs and feet in the skin brown, 

 bill black, lower mandible lighter. Wing 51, tars. 19, the tail so mnch worn that it 

 cannot be measured. "S-" Gunong Tahan, Oct. lOol, between 5000 and ToOO 

 ft. Named after Mr. Waterstradt, who collected on Mount Tahan. 



■>!//i/f< wntfrstrailti differs from -S'. atroqularis in all possil)le stages by its dark 

 ear-coverts, stronger and blacker bill, white underside and other characters. It 

 dift'ers from <S'. superciliaris and albigiihirh by the absence of the well-marked 

 white superciliary line, much more developed Ijlack striations on the breast, darker 

 flanks and thighs, smaller size and uniform colour of the crown and back, it differs 

 from .S'. khasiana in its very differently coloured olive, not ferruginous brown, upper 

 side. Whether .S'. icaterstratlti ever acquires a black throat I could not say, but it 

 seems to me that the type is in full plumage. Unfortunately only the one example 

 was collected. 



156. Orthotomus maculicoUis Moore. 



Ortliofomus maculicoUis Moore, P. Z. S. 1864 p. 309 (Malacca). 

 cJ. Sungei Lebeh 20. v. 1901. Butler obtained it on the Gunong Ijau at 3o00 ft. 

 " Iris brownish red, feet fleshy, bill dusky, fleshy below" (A. L. Butler). 

 The separating of the genera Orthotomus and Siitoria is unnecessary. 



15T. Prinia flaviventris (Deless.). 



Orthotormis fiaviventris Dehss., Ner. Zool. 1840. p. 101 (" Bottau ou Boutan 

 an nord du Bengale "). 



8ungei Lebeh, and other places in the lowlands of Pahang. 



158. Phyllergates cucullatus (Temm.). 



Orthotomus cucullatus Temm., PI. Col. 590 (" Java et Sumatra"). 



S ad. Gunong Tahan, between .5000 and 7000 ft. 



It has been obtained by me (and wrongly recorded as P. cucullatus in 1889) 

 and by Mr. Butler on Gunong Ijau. Comparing these with two adult birds from 

 Java and a nnmber from Borneo, I cannot see any differences to separate them by, 

 but the Java birds are not in first-rate condition. 



159. Franklinia rixfescens (Blyth). 



Priiiiu rufescem Blyth, .lourn. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. 1847. p. 45G (Arracan). 



Gunong Tahan, 3(i00 ft., 4. vi. 1901. 



Also Pahang lowlands, obtained by natives. 



The specimens from:the Malay Peninsula (I have it also before me from th 

 Gunong Ijau, collected by Mr. Bntler) are somewhat less rufous than those from 

 India, and will jirobably be separated snbsjiecifically one day. Mr. Gates is 

 mistaken if he says that the bills never turn black in summer. 



This species is certainly not a Cisticola, and as it has twelve reotrices, it is 

 advantageously Sijiarated from Prinia with only tea rcctrices (of. Gates, B. I/ii/in 

 i. p. 375). 



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