13. TrRDnrrs. 549 



t. Ad. st. Malacca. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



k. Ad. St. Malacca. Purchased. 



/. [cj imm.] sk. Singapore. Gould Collection. 



12. Turdinus rufipectus. 



Turdinus rufipectus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p 224 

 (1879). 



Adult male. Brown, with blackish margins to the feathers of the 

 upper surface ; throat white ; breast rufous ; abdomen greyish ; 

 wings dusky brown; tail and under tail-coverts dark brown; bill 

 and feet dusky : iris chestnut-brown. Total length 7'5 inches, 

 bill 1, wing 3"75, tail 2-75, tarsus 1'4. {Salvadori, I. c.) 



The female does not differ sensibly from the male (Salvadori), 



Hah. Sumatra. 



This species is said by Count Salvadori to differ from Turdinus 

 macrodactijlus principally in the rufous colouring of the breast. 



13. Turdinus atrigularis. 



Cacopitta atrigularis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 257 (1850). 



Macronus atrigularis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4750 (1869). 



Adxdt. General colour above light brown, slightly rufescent, the 

 head with narrow blackish margins to the feathers, broader on the 

 mantle and back, the feathers of which have very pale centres and 

 white shaft-streaks ; rump uniform rufous-brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts chestnut-brown ; wing-coverts like the back, with pale 

 centres and whitish shaft-lines to the feathers, the greater series 

 and priuiary-covcrts edged with chestnut-brown ; quills light brown, 

 externally chestnut-brown, the inner secondaries almost entirely 

 of the latter colour ; tail-feathers brown, washed externally with 

 chestnut-brown ; lores fulvesceut, tipped with black ; feathers round 

 the eye and ear-coverts black, the latter succeeded by a patch of 

 pale fulvous-brown on the sides of the neck, the feathers with 

 paler .shafts ; a narrow streak of white from the base of the lower 

 mandible to below the eye ; hinder cheeks and entire throat black, 

 slightly mottled with white bases to the feathers ; fore neck and 

 breast fulvous or buffy white, all the feathers broadly edged with 

 black except on the centre of the breast and abdomen, which are 

 whiter with very narrow blackish margins to the feathers ; lower 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts pale ferruginous buff ; axiUaries 

 and under wing-coverts pale ferruginous buff, the former with 

 whitish bases ; quiUs ashy brown below, pale ashy rufous along the 

 inner webs ; " iris chocolate '" {A. Everett). Total length 6' 7 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 3-9o, tail 3, tarsus 1-35. 

 Hah. Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Borneo. Purchased. 



6. 5 ad.sk. Santubong, Sarawak (-4. -Ci-rrei^). Gould Collectiou. 



