538 TIJCELIID^. 



quills light brown, externally chestnut like the back; tail-feathers 

 chcstuut-browu, margined with brighter chestnut; lores white, 

 obscured with dusky margins ; over the eye a tiny spot of white ; 

 ear-covcrts, sides of face, and cheeks, as well as the throat, 

 black ; lower throat and fore neck pure white, the upper part 

 with black bases to the feathers, causing a slightly mottled appear- 

 ance : remainder of under surface of body bright chestnut, sepa- 

 rated from the white neck-patch by a slight shade of brown not 

 distinct enough to form a band ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries like the breast ; quills light brown below, pale ashy rufous 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 7'7 inches, culmen 0*9, 

 wing 3-05, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-2. 

 Hah. Java and Sumatra. 



a. Ad. sk. Java. India Museum. 



b. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Purchased. 



8. Stachyris maculata. 



Timalia maculata, Temm. PI. Col. 59.3. fig. 1 (18-36) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 228 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, 



p. 276 ; Salater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215 ; Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 314, 



no. 4694 (1869) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 60. 

 Timalia pectoralis, Blyth, J. A. S. Bern/, xi. p. 793 (1842) ; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Sac. p. 149 (1849). 

 Malacopteron squamatum, Eyton, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. 



p. 228 (1845). 

 Macrornis maculatus, Bi^. Comptes Bend, xxxviii. p. 59 (1854). 

 Timelia maculata, Salvad. TJec. Born. p. 211 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



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



Adult male. General colour above olivaceous brown ; lower back 

 and rump ferruginous ; lesser, median, and greater coverts like the 

 back ; bastard wing and primarj-coverts more ashy brown than 

 the back and washed with olive ; quills sepia-brown, externally 

 olivaceous, more ashy on the primaries : upper tail-coverts bright 

 ferruginous; tail-feathers brown, margined with dull ferruginous; 

 crown of the head like the back, the forehead ashy, broadly streaked 

 with black ; lores blackish ; feathers round the eye dark ashy ; ear- 

 coverts and cheeks dark ashy : sides of the neck like the back ; throat 

 and moustachial line black ; the lower throat black, distinctly mar- 

 gined with ashy white ; fore neck and breast ashy whitish, with 

 ovate spots of black in the centres of the feathers ; abdomen white, 

 more narrowly streaked with dusky-blackish central streaks ; sides 

 of the body and thighs fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts clearer 

 fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts white, slightly mottled with 

 blackish bases; axillai'ies light fulvous-brown; quills below dusky 

 brown, inner edges ashy ; " tarsus lead-blue ; iris naples-yellow " 

 {A. Everett). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-25, tail 

 2'8, tarsus 1. 



Female. Bill black ; tarsus lead-grey ; iris yellow (^. £■.). Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-5, tail 2-8, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



