2. JiyDROciciii.A. 319 



1. Hydrocichla ruflcapilla. 



Eulcurus ruficapillus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 534(1832) ; Crray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 204 (1847) ; Bhiih, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 155 (1847) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p". 159 (1849) ; Bp. Cansj). i. p. 251 (1850) ; 



Graj/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 248, no. 3004 (18G9). 

 Enicurus diadematus, S. Miill. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. 1835, p. 346 



{ex Boie M8S.) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 204 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 248, no. 3005 (1869). 

 Allocoturus ruticapillus, Van der Hoeven, Handb. Zool. ii. p. 536 



(1856). 

 Henicurus ruficapillus, Elioes, Ibis, 1872. p. 257; Stoliczka, J. A. S. 



Bene/, xxxix. p. 304 (1870) ; Hume ^- Davison, Sir. F. 1878, vol. i. 



pp. 361, 518 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 65 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Ciuic. 



Genov. xiv. p. 234 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above black ; wing-coverts black, the 

 greater coverts tipped with white, broader on the inner ones ; 

 bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quiUs black; the secondaries 

 white at the base and also tipped with white, the innermost secon- 

 daries entire!}' white ; rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail- 

 feathers black, tipped with white, and white at base, two outer- 

 most white, next one white with a black mark towards the end ; 

 crown of head, occiput, nape, and hind neck orange-chestnut ; base 

 of forehead, lores, eyelids, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat bhick ; 

 across the forehead a broad band of white, followed by a narrow 

 line of black, separating the white frontal band from the rufous 

 crown ; fore neck with a triangular patch of pure white ; sides of 

 neck and breast white, tipped with blackish, producing a barred 

 appearance, these bars broader but less distinct on the flanks ; 

 remainder of under surface, thighs, and under tail-coverts pure 

 white ; under wing-coverts black, except the lower series, which are 

 white ; axillaries white, with an inner web of black on most of 

 them ; quills below blackish ; inner edge of quills with white patch 

 at base of secondaries ; " bill black ; legs, feet, and claws pale pinky 

 or fleshy white; iris dark brown" {W. Davison). Total length 

 7 inches, culmcn 0-9, wing 3-25, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-05. 



In the females the red extends over the whole upper back in 

 undiminished purity of colour, and thence over the scapulars and 

 nearly that portion of the back which is black in the male, leaving 

 only a black band from 0*1 to 0-2 inch wide dividing the red from 

 the white of the rump ; but on all these parts the red is duller, 

 browner, and less pure {Hume 4" Davison, Sir. F. 1878, i. p. 362). 



Hah. From the foot of Mount Xwalabo in Tenasserim throughout 

 the Malayan peninsula. Borneo. 



a. S ad. sk. Poak hill, Sarawak, Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



Sept. 14, 1874. 



