546 TIMELnDiE. 



with this species, notwithstanding its rufous wings and smaller size, 

 as I believe it may turn out to be the young bird. 

 Hah. West Africa: Gaboon. 



a. 2 [juv.]sk. Camma river, Gaboon. P. B. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



(Type of T. rufipennis.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Gaboon. P'. B. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



8. Turdinus rufifrons. 



Trichostoma rufifrons, Tweed. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 616, pi. xxxviii. 



Adult male (Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Dec. 10, 1877 ; A. 

 Everett : type of species). General colour above ashy fulvous-brown, 

 the lower back and rump becoming more and more rufous, the 

 upper tail-coverts bright rufous or chestnut ; wing-coverts fulvous- 

 brown, the greater series more olive-brown, narrowly edged with 

 fulvous-brown ; primary-coverts ashy brown, externally washed 

 with olive ; quills dark sepia-brown, externally fulvous-brown, the 

 primaries rather more olive along the outer web ; tail-feathers 

 umber-brown, somewhat shaded with rufous and margined with 

 brighter rufous, the outer feathers narrowly fringed at the tip 

 with whitish ; head fulvescent brown, brighter on the forehead, the 

 feathers with narrow dusky margins and shaft-lines, producing a 

 slightly scaly appearance ; lores, feathers round the eye and over 

 the latter ashy grey, forming a tolerably distinct eyebrow ; ear- 

 coverts pale ashy fulvous washed with ashy grey ; cheeks whitish, 

 washed with ashy grey ; entire throat white ; a few dusky streaks 

 on the throat and chest ; remainder of under surface pale ochra- 

 ceous buff, except the abdomen, which is pure white ; sides of 

 breast slightly washed with dull ashy ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts light ochraceous buff, whiter at the base of the feathers, the 

 edge of the wing brighter tawny buff; quills ashy brown below, 

 yellowish white along the edge of the inner web, which is more or 

 less tinged with fulvous ; " bill dark plumbeous ; feet paler 

 plumbeous ; iris pale Naples yellow " (A. Everett). Total length 

 7*4 inches, culmen 0-85, wing ?5-35, tail 3-2, tarsus 1'05. (3£us. 

 R. G. Wardlaiu Ramsay.) 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 7'1 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-05, tail 2-95, tarsus 1. {Mus. 

 R. G. Wardlaiu Ramsay.) 



Hah. Island of Palawan in the Philippine archipelago. 



a. S ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Dec. Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 

 1877 {A. Everett). Ramsay. 



9. Turdinus leptorliynclius *. 



Turdirostris leptoi-hyncha, Fischer ^- Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, 

 p. 155 ; iid. J. f. O. 1879, p. 347, 1880, p. 142. 



* See footnote, antea, p. 540. 



