544 TLMELIIDiE. 



brown, becoming more fulvesceut on the lower back and ramp, the 

 upper tail-coverts being rufous ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 greater series and quills dusky brown, externally rather more red- 

 dish brown than the back, the primaries rather more ashj' olive on 

 the outer web ; primary-coverts and bastard-wing feathers ashy 

 brown, washed externally with olive ; tail-feathers brown, washed 

 with dull ferruginous on both webs ; head and neck dusky and more 

 umber-brown, contrasting with the back ; lores ashy whitish ; 

 feathers round the eye fulvous ; ear-coverts dusky brown, with 

 faintly indicated fulvous shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat whitish 

 slightly washed with fulvous ; lower throat, breast, sides of body, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts rich tawny buff, the centre of the 

 breast and abdomen whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast, and slightly shaded with brown Hke the sides of the 

 breast : quills ashy brown below, pale ashy fulvous along the edge 

 of the inner web. Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-85, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus 1-05. 



Hah. Makassar, Celebes. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Makassar. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. S ad. sk. Makassar ( Wallace). Gould Collection. 



5. Turdinus rufescens. 



Turdirostris rufescens, Reichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. 299. 



Adult. General colour above fulvous-brown slightly tinted with 

 olive, the upper tail-coverts rather more rufescent ; head uniform 

 with the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills sepia-brown, 

 externally rather more rufous than the back ; tail-feathers brown, 

 washed on the margins of the feathers with rufescent brown ; lores 

 ashy fulvous ; ear-coverts dusky brown, with a streak of ashy 

 fulvous above them ; cheeks and throat ashy whitish ; remainder 

 of under surface of body purer white ; the sides of the body ashy 

 grey, as also tlie thighs ; the sides of the breast slightly browner ; 

 under tail-coverts ashy whitish, the longer ones fulvous ; axillaries 

 ashy grey; under wing-coverts ashy brown; quills dusky brown, 

 pale rufous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 6"6 inches, culmen 075, wing 3-3, tail 2"75, tarsus 1*15. 



Hah. Forests of Dcnkera in the interior of the Gold Coast, 

 W. Africa, ranging as high as Liberia. 



a, h, c. Ad. sk. Denkera (Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



6. Turdinus sepiarius. 



Brachvpteryx sepiaria, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 1.58 (1820) ; 



Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 209 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 312, no. 4664 



(1869). 

 Alcippe sepiaria, Bli/th, J. A. S. Bemj. xiii. p. .384 (1844) ; id. Cat. 



