12. STACHTEIS. 535 



a. Ad. sk. [Java.]* Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]- 



e. Ad. sk. [Sumatra.] Gould Collection. 



.4. Stachyris guttata. 



Turdinus guttatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxviii. p. 414 (1859) ; Tickell, 

 t. c. p. 450 (1859); Blyth, B. Burm. p. 116 (1875); Wald. Ibis, 

 1876, p. 353 ; Iltime Sc Davis. Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 264 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 95; Bimjham, Sir. F. 1880, p. 179. 



Macronus guttatus, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 319, no. 4778 (1869). 



Stachyris guttatus, Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 251 : id. B. Brit. Burm. 

 p. 49 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above rufescent brown, -with small 

 triangular spots at the end of the feathers ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts rufous ; lesser and median wing-coverts rufescent 

 brown like the back ; greater coverts and quills more rufous, the 

 latter dusky brown on the inner web ; tail reddish brown, ex- 

 ternally brighter rufous ; head and hind neck lighter rufescent 

 brown than the mantle, the forehead obscurely mottled with obso- 

 lete blackish markings on the ends of the feathers ; lores hoary 

 white, varied with black streaks in the centres of the feathers ; in 

 front of the eye and feathers below the latter black, followed by a 

 large white spot at the base of the ear-coverts, the remainder of 

 which are dark asliy, browner on the upper margin ; below the ear- 

 coverts a line of white feathers mottled with black centres ; a toler- 

 ably distinct eyebrow of white plumes edged with black : sides of 

 neck black, the feathers mottled with ovate white centres, imparting 

 a distinctly spotted appearance ; cheeks black, the hinder portion 

 orange-chestnut, forming a large spot ; malar line also black like 

 the cheeks ; throat white ; remainder of under surface of body 

 orange-chestnut, lighter in the centre of the body, and a little 

 browner on the flanks ; under tail- and wing-coverts orange-chest- 

 nut, the latter paler ; (juills ashy brown below, rufescent along the 

 edge of the inner web ; " legs and feet pale dingy green ; lower 

 mandible and edge of upper mandible along commissure plumbeous ; 

 rest of bill black; iridcs crimson-lake" (Davison). Total length 

 6'1 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 2*7, tail 2*15, tarsus 1. 

 Hab. Tenasserim. 



«. (5 ad. sk. Malewoon, S. Tenasserim, E. W. Oates, Esq. 



Dec. 29, 1876. 

 b. 2 ad. sk. Thoungveen vallev, Tenas- Capt. Bingham [C.]. 



serim", March 28, 1882. 



5, Stachyris nigricollis. 



Timalia nigricollis, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 594. fig. 2 (1836) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B.i. -p. 228 {1S46); Stricld. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 103; Blyth, 



* It -n-as on this specimen that Jlr. G. K. Gray founcled his belief that this 

 species inhabits Java. Count Salvador! (L'cc. Born. p. 213) very properly 

 doubts its correctness : the specimen is apparently a native Malaccan skin. 



