552 



TrjIELTTD^. 



fulvous tint across the fore neck and chest, forming a faintlj- indi- 

 cated band ; sides of body and flanks also -washed -with light brown 

 or ashy fulvous ; thighs tawny ; under tail-coverts very pale buff, 

 as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; quills light brown 

 below, very pale rufous along the edge of the inner web ; " upper 

 mandible dirty white ; lower mandible dark brown ; legs and feet 

 fleshv white; iris pale wood-brown" (Davison). Total length 6-3 

 inches, culmen O'S, wing 2-95, tail 2-65, tarsus 1"15. 



Hah. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan peninsula to 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



Malacca (A. E. Wallace). 

 Malacca. 



ad. Sumatra. 



I, m, n. Ad. sk. 



Sumati-a. 



Borneo. 



Lumbidan, N.W. Borneo. 



Lawas river. 



Paku, Sarawak. 



Malacca {Griffith). 



Gould Collection. 



A. E. Wallace, Esq. 



[0.]. 

 A. R. WaUace, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



Governor Ussher fCl. 

 Governor Ussher [C.J. 

 Henry Everett, Esq. 



[c.-]. 



India Museum. 



16. DRYMOCATAPHUS. 



Type. 

 Drymocataphus, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. sviii. p. 815 



(1849) D. nigrocapitatus. 



Bessethera, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 76 (1850) , . D. capistratus. 



Range. From the hills of N'orth-eastern Bengal, throughout Bur- 

 mah and Tenasserim and the Malayan peninsula, to Java, Sumatra, 

 and Borneo. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown black. 



a'. Breast tawny or orange-rufous; legs dark 

 brown in skin. 

 a". Superciliary streak orange-rufous ; ear- 

 coverts brown capistratus, p. 553. 



b" . Superciliary streak white or ashy whitish. 



«'". Lores and ear-coverts ashy grey nigricapitatus, p. 554. 



5'". Lores and ear-coverts black capistratoides, p. 555. 



b' . Breast white like the throat ; legs pale yel- 

 lowish in skin cleaveri, p. 656. 



b. Head brown with faint shaft-lines, or imiform 



brown. 

 c'. Flanks olive-brown. 



c". Throat white, not streaked ; head uniform 



brown without paler shaft-lines ignotus, p. 556. 



d". Throat fulvous, longitudinally streaked 

 with duskj'; head with distinct pale shaft- 

 Hues assamensis, p. 557. 



