( 470 ) 



head does not extend so far behind, but is more or less washed with jrreenish on the 

 nape. Younger birds resemble t\\c. female. 



This species enjoys a wide rang^e, being foimd from the Himalayas to Rnniiiih. 

 extending down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



T. Malacopterum cinereum bungurense subsj). nov. 



A series from Buuguran shows quite constant differences in the shade of colour 

 from M. chwretim from Malacca and Borneo, the rufous of the up])er tail-coverts 

 being paler and the rufous of the forehead being likewise paler. Besides all the 

 four specimens from Bungurau have a very distinct pale brownish bnft' band across 

 the breast ami some faint ashy streaks on the breast (though of course nut on the 

 throat as M. magnum has, which is quite different). 



There are very few sj)ecimens in the grand collection of M. cinereum in tlie 

 British Museum, now about three times as large as in 18»3, when Sharpe wrote 

 the immortal Catalogue of the Timeliidae, which approach the Bungurau birds in 

 the darkness of the breast, and the tail and forehead are always a little paler, 

 although there are specimens which are difficult to distinguish. As, however, the 

 Bungurau birds are entirely similar inter se, and are only approached, though not 

 quite reached, by a few out of the quantities of continental birds 1 was able to 

 compare, I feel obliged to recognise it as a subspecies. 



Wing in three males : 3, 3, 3-1 inches; in one female, 2T6 ; tail in the males : 

 •^•56, 2-C, 2-65 ; in the female, 2-4 ; cidmeu, 0-G5, 0-65, O'OO and 0-0 ; tarsus 0-72, 

 (i-TT, 0-TS and 0-7. 



8. Anuropsis malaccensis (Hartl.). 

 A male and a, female from Bnngnrau, both rather pale below. The wing of the 

 male is 2-G inches long, while that of t\xe female measures 2-35 inches only, but both 

 are alike in colour, except tliat the tail of the. female is more rufous. The tail of the 

 nude is 1-3 inch, that of the female 1-2. The species was originally described from 

 Malacca {Brav/"//jter'/x malaccensis, Hartl., Rev. ZooL, 1844, p. 4<.)2), and the only 

 synonym, Brachypteryx poliogenis, Strickl., Contr. 0/v(., 1^4it, p. li;!, PL XXXI. 

 (iigura inaccurata), is also given tx) a Malaccan bird. It is said to be distributed 

 over Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, but three Boruean specimens before me from 

 Mounts Penrisen, Dulit, and Kalulong, are much more bright ochraceous below. 

 The Bornean birds seem to be brighter as a rule, but not constantly (see Sharpe's 

 remarks on the species in pages 588 and 589 of Cat. B., vii., 1883). 



'•). Drymocataphus nigricapitatus (Eyton). 

 Five males &nd females from Bungurau. It is remarkable that the Malaccan 

 form, which reaches from the extreme south of Tenasserim through the Malay 

 Peninsula to Sumatra, and not /). cajjistratoides (Temni.), its Bornean representative, 

 inhabits Bungurau. 



lu. Stachyris natunensis sp. nov. 

 Staclii/ris ex affinitate speciernm St. damsoni, St. nigriceps, St. borneemis dic- 

 tarum, rostro nigro, palpebris albis, abdominis colore ut in St. nigriceps. Simillimus 

 St. dacisoni, sed colore supra olivascentiore, minus rufescente, facile distinguenda. 



