16. DRTMOCATAPHTTS. 5 53 



Flanks pale fulvous-'browB, only a little more 



deeply coloured than the breast ; head pale 



olive fulvous-brown, streaked with lighter 



shaft-lines like the back tickelli, p. 557. 



Flanks bright ferruginous like the under 



tail-coverts ruhiginosvs, p. 560. 



1. Drymocataphus capistratus. 



Mviothera eapistrata, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 185. fig. 1 (1823) ; Strickl. 



'Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 128. 

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



i. p. 319, no. 4773 (1869). 

 Turdirostris eapistrata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850) ; id, C. B. xxxviii. 



p. 59 (1854). 

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

 Bessothera eapistrata, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 10 (1872). 

 Drymocataplius capistratus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 219 (1874) ; 



Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 168. 



Adult male (East Java ; Wallace). General colour above earthy 

 brown, with scarcely pronounced light shaft-streaks on the mantle ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series with clearer fulvesceut 

 margins ; quills blackish brown, externally fulvescent brown, the 

 innermost secondaries uniform and slightly more olivaceous brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts rather more reddish brown than the back ; tail- 

 feathers brown, more fulvesceut on their edges, and j^aler at the 

 tips of the outer ones ; crown of head black, narrowing in a point 

 down the nape ; a distinct eyebrow of tawny buff or orange ; lores 

 dull white, with black-tipped plumes in front of the eye ; ear- 

 coverts brown, with narrow whitish shaft-lines ; eyelid and a line 

 of feathers above the ear-coverts ashy grey, extending in a less 

 marked manner to the sides of the nape ; sides of neck brown like 

 the back ; fore part of cheeks white, slightly washed with orange ; 

 the hinder part of the cheeks, the malar line, and the under surface 

 of the body orange-rufous or tawny, the under tail-coverts and Hanks 

 washed with brown ; throat white ; thighs orange-rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts a little lighter than the breast, and of a rather more 

 ochraceous brown colour ; quills light brown, pale fulvous along the 

 edge of the inner web ; bill born-black, browner towards the tip ; 

 edges of upper mandible and lower mandible pale ; legs, feet, and 

 claws brown. Total length 6'6 inches, cuhueu 0'7, wing 2-7, tail 

 2-4, tarsus 1-25. 



I have not met with an example of an undoubted adult female ; 

 but specimens probably of this sex are in Capt. Wardlaw Eamsay's 

 collection, as they have the ear-covcrts orange-rufous instead of 

 brown. 



Youm/. Differs from the adult in being everywhere more rufous, 

 especially on the wings and tail ; the underparts are of a deep orange- 

 rufous, and the white throat is scarcely perceptible ; the eyebrow, 

 which is very distinct, and the ear-covcrts and sides of the face are 



