650 TUEELnDJE. 



14. Turdinus loricatus. 



Myiothem loricata, Midi. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Amsterd. 1835, p. 348. 



Macronus loricatus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846). 



Cacopitta loricata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 257 (1850, ex Mull. MS. in Mm. 



Macronus loricatus, Gi-ay, JIand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4750 (1869). 

 Turdinus marmoratus, Wardlaw Mamsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 15. 



Adult (Sumatra ; C. Bock). General colour above rufous-brown, all 

 the feathers mottled 'vrith black margins, a little less distinct on the 

 head ; wing-coverts like the back, but a little less broadly margined 

 with black ; quills dark brown, externally dull chestnut ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts more distinctly rufous than the back, the dark 

 edges to the feathers scarcely distinguishable ; tail-feathers dark 

 chestnut-brown ; a distinct loral spot of white ; feathers round the 

 eye dark brown ; ear-coverts bright rufous, extending onto the 

 sides of the neck ; cheeks and throat white, mottled with broad 

 black edges to the feathers ; lower throat, fore neck, and breast 

 black, mottled with white on the body of the feathers, each of which 

 has a subterminal crescentic bar of white ; abdomen more ashy and 

 less distinctly barred or mottled with white ; sides of body, flanks, 

 and under- tail-coverts rufous-brown, the latter slightly tipped with 

 fulvous margins ; axillaries and under wing-coverts like the breast ; 

 the outer and lower wing-coverts brown hke the inside of the quills, 

 some of them showing narrow ashy margins. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 0-9, wing 3-6, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-3. (l/ws. B. G. Wardlaw 

 Jiamsay.) 



Obs. The specimen described is the type of T. marmoratus ; but 

 I afterwards discovered in the lluseum a specimen of T. loricatus, 

 received from the Leyden Museum ; and there can be no doubt of 

 the latter being the older name for the species. 



Hub. The mountains of Sumatra. 



a. Ad. sk. Sumatra, Leyden Museum. 



14. DEYMOCH.ffiRA. 



Type. 



DiymochaBra, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 19 D. badiceps. 



Vitia, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. i. p. 41 (1876) . . D. badiceps. 



Range. Confined to the Piji Islands. 



1 . Drymochaera badiceps. 



Drymochaera badiceps, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 20. 



Vitia ruficapilla, Mamsay, Pr. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. i. p. 41 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above dull reddish brown ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the lesser and median series with ashy bases ; 

 quills dark sepia-brown, edged with rufous-brown ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, margined with reddish brown ; crown of head and nape 



