548 thielhd^. 



11. Tnrdinus macrodactylus. 



Malacopteron macrodactylum, StricM. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. 



p. 417 (1844) ; id. P. Z. S. 1846, p. 103. 

 Turdinus macrodactylus, Bhjth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 382 



(1844) ; id. Cat. 'B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 147 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 219 (1850) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 225 ; 



mime, Str. F. 1879,' p. 60. 

 Macronus macrodactvlus, Gray, Gm. B. i. p. 210 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 319, no. 4776. ' 

 Bracliypteiyx albogularis, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401. 

 Hadropezus macrodactylus, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 11 (1872). 



Adult (Malacca ; A. R. Wallace). General colour above reddish 

 brown, more fulvesceut on the back and duller on the head, the 

 upper surface mottled with distinct pale centres and yellowish 

 shaft-lines to the feathers, which are also distinctly edged with 

 black ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, the greater 

 coverts rather duller brown, with yellowish shaft-lines; primary- 

 coverts and quills externally rufous-brown, dusky brown on the 

 inner webs ; rump a little "lighter than the back and not so di- 

 stinctly black-edged ; upper tail-coverts and tail dull chestnut- 

 brown ; lores white, obscured by blackish tips to the feathers ; 

 eyelid black ; ear-coverts rufous, narrowly streaked with black ; 

 cheeks white, mottled with blackish edgings to the feathers ; throat 

 white, the lower part slightly mottled with a few triangular spots or 

 edgings of ashy blackish ; remainder of under surface of body light 

 fulvous-brown with white shaft-lines ; the thighs and flanks uniform 

 fulvous-brown : centre of the breast and abdomen pale ashy, mottled 

 with white centres to the feathers and dusky markings and bars ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries light fulvesccnt brown; lower 

 series of under wing-coverts ashy brown ; quills dull brown below, 

 ashy fulvous along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 6*7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-2, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-2. 



In the specimen described the ear-coverts are rufous ; and the 

 bird may therefore only be the female. None of the specimens in 

 the British Museum have the sex marked. Most of them, however, 

 have black ear-coverts and are very much darker in plumage, with 

 more distinct black spots and edgings on the feathers of the throat 

 and fore neck. Behind the ear-coverts, too, is a patch of fulvescent 

 feathers, each of which is edged with brown. 



In one bird the ear-coverts are rufous, changing into black ; and 

 this specimen appears to show that the young male has rufous ear- 

 coverts like the old female, and then changes into the black coverts 

 of the adult. 



Hah. Malayan peninsula, ranging as high as Province WeUesley. 



a,h.\ 6 9.^ ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. WaUace, Esq. 



c,(^. [c? ad. Jjuv.] Malacca. W.' Harvey, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f. [cJ ad.] sk. Malacca {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



^, A. L c? ad.] sk. Malacca (Pam .ErM.). India Museum. 



