12. STACHYKIS. 537 



6. Stachyris leucotis. 



Timalia leucotis, Stricld. Contr. Orn. 1848, p. 63, pi. 12 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 315, no. 4697 (18G9) ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 854 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1880, p. 116. 



Macromis leucotis, Bj?. Consp. i. p. 218 (1850). 



Timelia leucotis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1878, p. 418. 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, inclining to chestnut 

 on the lower back and rump, the upper tail-coverts chestnut with 

 obsolete tips of lighter rufous ; head duller brown than the back 

 and somewhat olivaceous brown, with obsolete dusky margins to 

 the feathers ; wing-coverts rufous-brown like the back, with rufous 

 or pale fulvous bars near the end of the feathers, producing a 

 spotted appearance ; quills dusky brown, externally dark chestnut 

 or rufous-brown, the feathers tipped with a bar of lighter rufous ; 

 like the wing-covcrts, these paler bars or spots have a narrow ter- 

 minal edging of black; tail-feathers chestnut-brown, with a narrow 

 bar of pale rufous just before the tip of the feather ; loral plumes 

 bristly, yellowish white tipped with dusky and having a shaft- 

 streak of dusky also ; ring of feathers round the eye yellowish 

 white ; feathers below the eye and cheeks black ; a distinct eyebrow 

 of white, the plumes composing it being white along the centre 

 broadly edged with black ; ear-coverts dark slaty grey with a patch 

 of white on the lower edge behind : sides of neck black, with 

 several very distinct ovate spots of white ; throat and fore neck 

 black, the remainder of the under surface dark slaty grey with in- 

 distinct paler shaft-lines ; lower flanks, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts rufous-brown, the latter margined with paler rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillarics light ochraceous buff mottled with dusky, 

 the lower coverts dusky brown ; quills dusky brown below, scarcelj' 

 paler along the edge of the inner web, the shafts white below. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-5, tail 1-95, tarsus 0-9. 



The specimen from Sarawak differs from all three ilalaccan skins 

 in the Museum in having the head dark slaty grey instead of brown, 

 I do not, however, like to separate the Borneau bii-d as distinct 

 without seeing more specimens. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula and Eorueo. 



7. Stachyris thoracica. 



Pitta thoracica, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 76 (1823). 



Timalia thoracica, Bli/f7i, J. A. S. Bern/, xi. p. 795, note (1842) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 228 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850) ; Ilorsf. ^ 

 Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Miis. i. p. 228 (1654) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 3] 5, no. 4702 (1869). 



Napodes thoracica, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 77 (1850). 



Adult. General colour above uniform bright chestnut, duller and 

 more chestnut-brown on the head ; wing-coverts like the back 



