532 TIMELIIDiE. 



g S ad. sk. Saralalau, Nov. 1.3, 1869 F. D. Godman and 0. 



{A. Cfossleij). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



A. cJad.; i. d imm. Ankafana forest, Betsileo, Rev. Deans,Cowan[C.]. 



sk, March 1881. 



k. 5 ad. sk. Betsileo. Rev. G. A. Shaw [C.]. 



12. STACHYRIS. 



Type. 



Cilathora, Hodgs. MS. _ . 



Stachyris, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 378, note (1844) S. nigriceps. 



Ranqe. Himalaya mountains ; hills of the Indo-Chinese region, 

 Burmah and Tenasserim, extending down the Malayan peninsula 

 to the mountains of Sumatra. Southern China and Formosa. 



Kt;y to the Species. 



a. Chin ashy or white, not black. 



a'. Under surface light ochraceous brown or pale 



rufous ; ear-coverts rufescent brown ; throat 



greyish or incliuiug to blackish in the centre. 



a" . liump and sides of body light olive- or 



ochraceous browu ; chin whitish ; upper 



throat black, forming a more or less distinct 



spot nigriceps, p. 532. 



b". Rump and sides of body dull chestnut; chin 



and upper throat dull grey larvata, p. 534. 



h'. Under surface of body bright chestnut; ear- 

 coverts dark grey. 

 c". Throat dark grey, streaked with white .... jjoJiocephala, p. 534. 

 d". Throat pure white guttata, p. 535. 



b. Chin or throat black. 



c'. Breast uuiform, not spotted. 

 e". Breast leaden grey. 



a'". No pale tips to wing-coverts ; a white 

 spot on the fore part of the cheeks ; 

 forehead streaked with black and white; 

 black throat-patch bordered with a 

 crescentic band of white feathers tipped 



with black nigricollis, p. 535. 



b'". Wing-coverts tipped with pale rufous 

 spots ; no white spot on the cheeks ; 

 forehead not streaked; sides of neck 



black with ovate spots of white leucotis, p. 537. 



/". Breast bright chestnut like the upper sur- 

 face thoracica, p. 537. 



d'. Breast mottled like the throat, the feathers of 

 the latter black edged with white; the brea.st- 

 feathers white with black centres tnaculata, p. 538. 



1. Stachyris nigriceps. 



Stachyris nigiiceps, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mi,s., Passeres, App. 

 pi. 87 (no. 356) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; id. J. A. S. 

 Beng. xiii. p. 378, note (1844) ; Blyth, t. c. p. 378 (1844) ; Hodgs. 

 P. Z. S. 1845, p. 22 ; Gray, List Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. 

 p. 74 (1846) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 150 (1849) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 332 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. 



