542 TIMELIID^. 



brown ; eyelids plumbeous " {E. W. Oates). Total length 5-6 inches, 

 culmen 0-S5, wing 2-95, tail 2, tarsus 1. 



On comparing a series of this species, it will be seen that the 

 Malayan and Bornean specimens are rather paler than those from 

 Burmah and Assam, and do not acquire the rich colour of the 

 under tail-coverts which the last-named birds exhibit. The shade 

 of colour, however, is too slight to found a specific difference upon. 

 In some individuals the dusky tint on the throat and breast takes 

 the form of ashy streaks. 



Hah. Prom Xorth-eastern Bengal and the Eastern Himalayas, 

 through Burmah and Tenasserim, down the Malayan peninsula to 

 Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



6. Ad. sk. Nazeerah, Upper Assam R.B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



{Dr. Reid). 



c,fZ. Ad. sk. Dacca (Ty</er). India Museum. 



e. (5juv.sk. Zeinganein, Pegu, June 28, E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



1877. 



/. cS ad. sk. Pegu, July 2, 1875. E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



g. 2 ad. sk. Pegu, Aug. 17, 1875. E. W. Oates, Esq. [0.]. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Bankasoon, Tenasserim, May A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



28, 1877 ( W. Davison), 



i. S ad. sk. Meetan, Tenasserim, Feb. 26, A. 0. Hume, Esq . 



1877 {W. Davison), 



k. S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



[C.]. 



l,m. c? 2 ad.sk. Malacca {Wallace). Goukl Collection. 



n. Ad. sk. Malacca. Pmx-hased. 



0. Ad. sk. Singapore. Gould Collection. 



P) q. Ad. sk. Banjermassing, S. Borneo. J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Turdinus celebensis. 



Trichostoma celebense, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 127, pi. 35 

 (front figm-e) ; Bruggem. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 63 

 (1878) ; Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 378, pi. xi. fig. 2. 



Macronus celebeusis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4763 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, a little more dusky 

 on the head, and rather more rufescent towards the rump, the upper 

 tail-coverts being ferruginous ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 greater series and the quills dusky brown, externally a little more 

 rufous than the back ; tail reddish brown, washed with ferruginous 

 along the outer webs ; lores and feathers round the eye ashy 

 whitish ; sides of face and ear-coverts, as well as the cheeks, dusky 

 ashy brown, the latter whitish near the base of the lower man- 

 dible : throat, breast, and abdomen white shaded with ashy, espe- 

 cially on the sides of the breast ; flanks and sides of body fulvous- 

 brown, becoming brighter and more tawny on the thighs and under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts deep fulvous or reddish brown ; 

 quills dusky brown below, pale rufous along the edge of the inner 



