15. MEGALURtrS. 123 



h". Size very much smaller ; wing not 2'5 

 inches : "under tail-coverts yellowish buff, 

 with a faint shade of light brown in the 



centre gramineus, p. 125. 



h'. Fore neck and lower throat not spotted or 



streaked with dusky; head more rufescent. 



c". Mantle more or less ashy olive, with 



blackish centres to the feathers. 



a'". Breast pale fulvescent ; head bright 



rufous ruficeps, p. 125. 



b'". Breast somewhat ashy; head dark \macmms,^. 126. 



rufous I ambuinensis, p. 127. 



d". Mantle fulvous-brown with blackish 

 centres ; general tone of plumage fidves- 

 cent ; sides of body and flanks more 



rufous yalactotes, p. 127. 



b. Upper tail-coverts uniform deep rufous. 



e". Larger; wing 2-7-2-85 inches: tail uni- 

 form chestnut ; inner secondaries mar- 

 gined with rufous buff timoriefisis, p. 128. 



/". Smaller; wing 2-25-2-35 inches : tail 

 rufous, dark brown in the centre ; inner 

 secondaries edged with white alboUmbatus, p. 129. 



1. Megalurus palustris. 



Megalurus palustris, Horsf. Trans. LiJin. Soc. xiii. p. 159 (1820) ; 



Gray, Gm. B. i. p. 1U9 (1845) ; Blytli, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 139 (1S49); Bp. Omsp. i. p. 279 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. 



i p 45 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 330 



(1854); Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 70 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 30; 

 . Gray,Hand-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2905 (1869); Bhmf. Ibis, 1870, 



p. 467 ; Ilame, Nests ^- Ef/f/s Lid. B. p. 276 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1874, 



p. 476; id. Sf Gates, Str'.^F. 1875, p. 124; Walden, Tr. Zuol. Soc. 



ix. pp. 189, 250 (1875); Bhjth Sf Wald. B. Burm. p. 118 (1875); 



Ball, Str. F. 1876, p. 233; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. 



p 78 (1876) ; S/iarjie, Trans. Liiin. Soc, new series, Zool. i. p. 352 



(i876) ; Gates, Str. F. 1877, p. 156 ; Ttveedd. P. Z.S. 1877, p. 694; 



Anderson, Zool. E.vped. Yun-na7i, Aces, p. 639 (1878) ; Ball, Str. 



F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 214 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97 ; Inglis, Str. F. 



1880, p. 25S ; Tf'ardlair Baimag, Ttveedd. Orn. Worls, p. 657 



(1881) ; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 106 (1883). 

 Malurus marginalis, Te^mn. PI. Col. iii. pi. Ixv. fig. 2 (1823, ex 



Peinw. MSS.) ; Kittl. Voy. Liitke (Postels), Bd. iii. p. 326. 

 Meo-alurus citrinus. Gray ^ Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 169, pi. 48 (1848) ; 



B}). Consp. i. p. 279 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 206, no. 2906 



(1869). 



Advlt male. General colour above fulvous-brown, broadly streaked 

 with black down the back, less distinctly on the hinder neck and 

 very minutely and obscurely on the head ; lower back and rump 

 uniform fulvous-brown, as also the upper tail-coverts, tho latter 

 with narrow blackish-brown streaks ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back, and centred with blackish brown in the same 

 way ; greater covei'ts, as well as the bastard-wing feathers and 



