24. CITTOCINCLA. 89 



Kittoclncla stiicklaudi, ISalvad. Ucc. Born. p. 253 (1874) ; Sharpe, 



F. Z. S. 1875, p. 106. 

 Cittofincla stricklaudi, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 310; id. Ibis, 18/9, 



p. 25U ; id. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 798. 



Adult male. General colour glossy purplish black, the crown silvery 

 white, reaching to the nape ; lower hack, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts also silvery white ; wing black, the coverts and secondaries 

 with a slight purplish gloss ; four centre tail-feathers black, the rest 

 pure white, with a slight blackish mark near the base of the inner 

 web, decreasing towards tlie outermost ; throat and fore neck, as^ 

 well as the sides of the face, black like the upper surface ; rest of 

 under surface chestnut-orange; under wing-coverts chestnut, the 

 edge of the wing black : bill black ; feet fleshy brown. Total 

 length 9-5 inches, culmen Q-S, wing 3-85, tail 5, tarsus 1-05. 



The cuhdt female is probably like the male in plumage. A speci- 

 men from Labuan is much smaller than the male : wing 3-6 inches, 

 tail 3-8. ^ J 



Young. Mottled all over, the spots on the back and wings formed 

 by ochreous-buff tips to the feathers ; head and sides of face streaked 

 with ochreous buff ; cheeks and throat ochreous buff, mottled with 

 dusky bases ; rest of under surface of body pale tawny, mottled with 

 dusky edges to the feathers. 



Bab. I.abuan Island, N.W. coast of Borneo, reaching to Sanda- 

 kan. 



a,b r cJ 2 1 ad. sk. Labuan (H. Low). H. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Labuan. Hugh Low, Esq. T^ ^ 



d. Ad. sk. Labuan. Governor Ussher [ 



3. Cittocincla albicapilla. 



Turdus albicapillus, Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 254 (1818j ; 



Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 655 (1823). 

 Turdus albiceps, Less. Traite, p. 408 (1831, ex Cuv. MS.) ; Pucker. 



Arch. iMus. vii. p. 341 (1864). 

 Petrocincla leucoceps, Swains. B. W. Afr. p. 282 (1837). 

 Cossvpha leucoceps, Sicains. Classif. B. ii. p. 2.33 (18.37). 

 Bessbnornis albicapilla, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847 ) ; Bp. Consp. 



i p 301 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3870 (1869). 

 Cossvpha albicapilla, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 77 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 



1861, p. 163; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 26 (1871). 



Adult. Above slaty brown, the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts bright orange ; entire crown of head and nape white, all the 

 feathers narrowly margined with dull brown ; lores, chin, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and 'sides of neck duU brown like the back ; rest of 

 under surface of body bright orange, including the under wing- and 

 tail-coverts; wings uniform dull brown; two centie tail-feathers 

 dull brown, the rest of the tail bright orange, the external feather 

 broadly margined with brown on the outer web : bill and legs 

 blackish brown. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-6, 

 tail 5, tarsus 1-4. 



