202 TIMELITD^. 



p. Ad. hiem. sk. Madras (Jerdon), Eytou Collection. 



q. Ad. liiem. sk. Madras. India Museum. 



?•. Ad. Mem. sk. Ceylon. E.L. Layard, Esq. [CJ. 



s. Ad. hiem. sk. Ceylon. F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salviu, Esqrs. [P.]. 



t, (S ad. sk. MahaOya, Eastern Province, Cant. W.Vincent Legge 



Ceylon, Sept. 1875. [P.]. 



8. Prinia polychroa. 



Malurus polychrous, Tenim. PI. Col. iii. pi. 466. fig. .S (1828). 

 Drymoica sp., Blytk, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 459 (1847) ; id. Cat, B, 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 142 (1849). 

 Drymoica polychroa, Gray, Gen. B. 1844-49, i. p. 163 (1848) ; Horsf. 



|- Moore, Cat. B. Mus'. E.I. Co. i. p. 328, note (1854). 

 Suya blythii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 281 (1850). 

 Drymoipus polychrous, Bp. C. H. xxxviii. p. 10 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. 182 (1863). 

 Prinia polychroa, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196, no. 2714 (1869). 

 Suya polychroa, Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, p. 150. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with slightly darker 

 centres to the feathers of the back, causing a faintly streaked ap- 

 pearance ; feathers of the head more plainly edged with ashy brown, 

 hoary on the forehead, the crown being very distinctly streaked ; 

 wing-coverts dark brown, the lesser and median series edged with 

 ashy, the bastard-wing feathers with dull whity brown, the greater 

 series, primary-coverts, and quills somewhat slightly edged with 

 riifescent brown ; tail-feathers light brown, edged with paler brown, 

 tipped with white, before which is a more or less distinct spot of 

 dusky ; lores white, extending into a tolerably distinct eyebrow ; 

 ear-coverts light fulvous ; cheeks and under surface of body yel- 

 lowish buff, whiter on throat and abdomen ; flanks and thighs rather 

 more pale tawnj- brown ; sides of upper breast ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries light tawny buff ; quills dusky brown 

 below, rufescent along inner web. Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but smaller; "bill 

 horny, pale beneath ; feet fleshy white ; iris light reddish brown " 

 (Wallace). Total length 5'7 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-1, tail 

 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 



ITab. Java. 



a. Ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. W. Java {E. C. Buxton). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 e. 2 ad. sk. W. Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 d. (S ad. sk. E. Java. A. R Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



