554 TIlTELIIl)^. 



of the same colour as the underparts ; the crown is blackish brown 

 instead of jot-black, and forms a cap, instead of extending down 

 the nape as in the adult. The bill and feet are also paler. 

 Hah. Java. 



a. S ad. sk. East Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. West Java {E. C. Buxton). F. Nicholsou, Esq. [P.l 



c. (S ad. sk. Java (Diard). F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



2, Drymocataphus nigricapitatus. 



Brachypteryx uigro-capitata, Ei/ton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103 ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 385 (1844) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 178 



(1849). 

 Goldana nigi-ocapitatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 796 (1842). 

 Drymocataphus nigrocapitatus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xviii. p. 815 



(1849) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 273; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B.E.I. 



Co. Mus. i. p. 396 (1854) ; Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 59 (1854) ; Sahad. 



Ucc. Born. p. 219 (1874) ; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 308 ; mime 8f 



Davis. Sir. F. 1878, p. 275 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 61, 96 ; Kel- 



ham, Ibis, 1881, p. 511 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 64 (1883). 

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

 Turdirostris nigrocapistratus, Verr. MSS. ; Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 59 



(1854). 

 Macronus nigrocapistratus, " Eyton," Bp. t. c. p. 69 (1854, nee Eyton). 

 Macrouus capistratus (pt.), Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. pp. 69, 161 



(1805, nee Temm.). 

 Drymocataphus capistratoides, pt., Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, 



no. 4769 (1869, nee Stricld.). 

 Drymocataphus barbatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 319, no. 4775 (1869). 

 Myiothera capistratoides, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 170 {nee Strickl.). 



Adult male. General colour above rufous-brown, with indistinct 

 pale shafts to the feathers of the mantle ; wing-coverts Hke the 

 back, the greater series with brighter chestnut margins ; quills 

 sepia-brown, externally rufous-brown, the inner secondaries uniform 

 rufous-brown ; upper tail-coverts deep chestnut ; tail-feathers duU 

 rufous-brown, with chestnut margins to the feathers ; crown of 

 head and nape black ; lores, feathers round the eye and eyebrow, 

 sides of face, and ear-coverts ashy grey, streaked with white shaft- 

 lines, the ear-coverts washed with rufous ; sides of neck orange- 

 rufous, as also the hinder part of the cheeks and under surface 

 of: body ; the fore part of the cheeks and the whole of the throat 

 white ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts more ohve-brown, 

 washed with orange ; under wing-coverts light orange, shaded with 

 brown, fulvous-white along the edge of the wing; quills brown 

 below, fulvescent along the margin of the inner web ; " upper 

 mandible black, lower one fleshy white ; legs and feet fleshy white, 

 slightly tinged with brown (in one specimen reddish horny) ; iris 

 rhubarb-red" {W. Davison). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 2-65, tail 2-25, tarsus 2-2. 



Hah. Sumatra and the Malayan peninsula, ranging, as a rare 

 straggler, into the extreme southern portions of Tcnasserim. 



