186 TIMELIID^. 



yellowish white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard-wing and 

 primary- coverts lighter brown ; quills brown, externally margined 

 with fulvous-brown, more or less tinged with olive ; upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; tail-feathers light brown, with dusky cross 

 bars under certain lights, the feathers tipped with dull white, before 

 which is a very broad subterminal spot of dark l)rown ; crown of 

 head and hind neck dull brown, a little darker than the back; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts dusky brown like the head, 

 the latter with yellowish shaft-lines and washed with yellow on 

 the lower half; cheeks and throat white, succeeded by a bar of 

 ashy brown extending across the fore neck and onto the sides of 

 the neck ; breast and abdomen bright yellow ; sides of body and 

 flanks washed with olive ; thighs dusky olive ; under tail-coverts 

 pale yellowish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white, 

 with a di;sky spot near the outer edge of the greater series ; quills 

 dusky below, inner edges fulvescent ; " upper mandible black, the 

 lower one yellow, black at tip ; legs and feet flesh-colour ; iris dark 

 brown " (H. 0. Forhes). Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 2-15, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-95. ^ 



A bird in young or winter plumage differs from the specimen 

 described in being more uniform olive-brown above, the head being 

 brown and not grey ; the yellow on the abdomen is paler and the 

 chest has no grey band across it. A Sumatran specimen is similar 

 to the adult, but has not the grey chest-band ; this difference may 

 be sexual. 



Hah. Java and Sumatra. 



a. S ad. sk. East Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



b. Imm. sk. East Java. A. E,. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 e. Ad. sk. West Java {E. C. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



Buxton). 



d. Ad. sk. Java {Horsfield). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 



e. Ad. sk. Java. Gould Collection. 

 /. Ad. sk. Sumatra, A. E. Wallace, Esq. 



2. Prinia flavicans. 



Le Citrin, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 109, pi. 127 (1802) ; Sundev. 



Krit. Franid. Levaill. p. 38 (1857). 

 Sylvia subflava, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 175 (1817, nee 



Gm.) 

 Sylvia Havicans, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Metli. ii. p. 438 (1823). 

 Sylvia limonella, Licht. Verz. Samml. Sdvg. u. Viig. Kaffeml. p. 13 



(1842). 

 Drynioica pallida. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. Ixxii. fig. 2 



(1842) ; Grat/, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Bjx Coyisp. i. p. 283 

 (1850) ; Gurnetj, Ibis, 1863, p. 325 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 86 

 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 155 ; Gray, Hand-l. B'. i. p. 97, 

 no. 2735 (1869). _ 



Drymoica pectoralis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pl. Ixxv. fig. 2 



(1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 86 

 (1867) ; Gratj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 197, no. 2733 (1869). 



