536 TIMELITB^. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 149 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850) ; 

 Horsf. 8)- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Muf. p. 228 (1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1854, p. 276 ; Sdater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 314, no. 4693 (1869) ; Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 375 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 60. 

 Timalia eiythronotus. Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 793 ; id. xv. p. 10 



(1846). ■ 

 Brachvpteryx niffi'ogularis, Eyton, Ann. !^- Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 228 



(1S45) ; 'Haril. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 4. 

 Stacliyiis nigricollis, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 290 (1870). 

 Dametia nigricollis, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 10 (1872). 

 Timelia nigricollis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 212 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 10 ; id. 1879, p. 257. 

 Adult male (Malacca). General colour above chestnut-red, the 

 wing-coverts like the back ; primary-coverts and quills duskj- brown, 

 externally margined with the same chestnut as the back, the inner- 

 most secondaries entirely chestnut ; tail-feathers dark sepia-brown, 

 with chestnut edges to the feathers ; crown of head black, the 

 nape and hinder crown washed with rufous ; forehead streaked 

 with white, with which the feathers are edged ; lores, feathers 

 below the eye, ear-coverts, and sides of face black, with a large 

 spot of white on the fore part of the cheeks, and a broad white 

 streak above the ear-coverts ; sides of neck slaty grey ; throat 

 and fore neck black; remainder of under surface slaty grey, separated 

 from the black throat by a half collar of black-tipped feathers, 

 many of which have conspicuous subterminal spots and bars ; 

 flanks and under tail-coverts washed with rufous ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries light rufous with ashy bases, those near the 

 edge of the wing ashy ; quills brown below, pale ashy rufous along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0'7o, 

 wing 2-75, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-9. 



The sexes are alike in colour ; but the female is smaller, measuring 

 2'5 inches in the wing, 1"9 in the tail, and 0-9 in the tarsus. 

 Hah. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



