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rufous, forming a cap ; a distinct eyebrow of grejdsh white ; feathers 

 in front of the eye dusky ; ear-coverts light ashy grey, as also the 

 hinder part of the cheeks ; fore part of cheeks and throat white, ex- 

 tending onto the fore neck and breast, where, however, it is tinged 

 with grey ; sides of neck and sides of breast ashy grey, the flanks 

 light fulvous-brown ; thighs ashy, washed with fulvous-brown ; 

 under taU-coverts light fulvous-brown; under wing-coverts, axil- 

 laries, and edge of the wing pure white ; quills dusky below, white 

 along the edge of the inner web ; " bill dark brown ; feet pale 

 brown" (Kleinschmidi). Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 1'65, wing 

 2-25, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-95. 



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

 4-75 inches, wing 2-15, tail 2, tarsus 0-9. 



Mab. Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. 



a, b. c? 2 ad. sk. Interior of Viti Leva. Dr. Kleinschmidt [C.]. 



15. ERYTHEOCICHLA. 



Range. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



1. Erythrocichla bicolor, 



Brachyptei^x bicolor, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 138. 

 Alcippe ? bicolor, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 385 (1844). 

 Malar-opteron ferruginosum, Bh/th, t. c. p. 383 (1844) ; Salvad. Ucc. 



Born. p. -I^S (1874) ; Hume lij- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 58 ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 96. 

 Macronus bicolor, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 318, no. 4764 (1869). 

 Trichostoma bicolor, Bli/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 147 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. i>59 (1800) ; Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. F.I. Co. Mus. i. 



p. 226 (1854) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 536. 

 Napothera rubicauda, Bp. Consp. i. p. 359 (1850, e.v Miill. MS. in 



Mas. Luyd.). 

 Napothera rubicunda, Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. Soc, App. p. xxi (1852, 



ex Miill. MSS.). 

 Napothera rubricauda, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47 (ex Miill. MS. in Mus. 



Lurid.). 

 Trichostoma ferruginosimi, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47 ; Oatcs, B. Brit. 



Burm. p. 58 (1883). , 



Adidt male. General colour above rufous-brown, more rufescent 

 on the forehead and crown, with light shaft-lines, the latter scarcely 

 distinguishable on the back ; on the rump a narrow band of silky 

 white plumes, almost concealed by the long feathers of the rump ; 

 upper tad-coverts and tail uniform briglit ferruginous ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back or edged with the same colour as 

 the latter ; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, externally rufous ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 buffy white ; feathers below the eye silky whitish : ear-covcrts pale 

 brown ; checks, throat, and under surface of body white, with a 



