8. BKACHYPTEETX. 25 



reddish brown ; quills dusky brown, externally reddish brown, 

 paler on the primaries; upper tail-coverts rufous-brown; tail- 

 feathers dark rufous-brown, externally reddish brown ; crown of 

 head like the back ; forehead and lores ashy ; feathers round the 

 eye fulvous brown ; ear-coverts fulvous brown, with paler shaft- 

 lines ; cheeks and throat ashy brown, washed with fulvous, with a 

 clearer spot of ashy whitish on the fore neck ; chest fulvous brown, 

 as also the sides of the breast ; centre of breast and abdomen ashy, 

 with light shaft-Hues ; sides of body washed with fulvous brown ; 

 thighs dusky brown ; iinder tail-coverts brown, centred with white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy fulvous ; quills light brown 

 below, ashy rufous on the inner edge. Total length 5*8 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 3-2, tail 2-2, tarsiis 1-05. 



Hab. Java. It was erroneously described by Lesson as from 

 Pegu. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



c,d. d 2 ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. St. Java. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



8. BEACH YPTERYX*. 



Type. 

 BrachypteiTX, Horsf. Tranf!. Luin. Soc. xiii. p. 157 (1820) B, niontana. 



Goldana, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 25 B. montana. 



Drymochares, Gould, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 218 B. steUata. 



Ranrje. Himalaya ^fountains, extending throughout the Burmese 

 countries ; Java and Sumatra. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper surface blue or blue-grey ; a white super- 

 ciliary spot. 

 a'. Throat hoary whiti.sh, as also abdomen ; rest 



of imder sm-face blue-grey ; wing 2-25 inches, montana, p. 26. 

 h'. Throat blue-back ; abdomen violet-brown ; 



wing 2-4 inches cruralis tS , p. 26. 



* I hare been unable to determine the position of the foUo-wing species : — 



BEACnVPTERYX FLAVIVEXTRIS. 



Brachyptervx flaviventris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. si v. p. •'>26 

 (1879). • 



Above brown ; below yellowish ; the abdomen brighter, the sides of body 

 and flanks brown ; an obsolete superciliarj' streak of yellowish ; lores dusky ; 

 bill and feet dusky. Total length Q-llS niillim., wing Q-OoO, tail 0-050, bill 0010, 

 tarsus 0025. {Salvadori.) 



Hah. Mount Singalan, Sumatra. 



Count Salvadori tbiuks this may be Brachypteryx leptnra of Kuhl, men- 

 tioned by S. Muller (Nat. Geseh. Laud- en Volk. pp. 330, 333), but of which no 

 deseription seems to have been published. 



Some species usually placed in Brachypteryx, such as B. malaccensis, B. 

 murinus, &c., I consider to be true Timelim, and have transferred them to that 

 group. 



