504 XI M KLUDGE. 



Key to the S^jecies. 



a. Fore part of head rufous, -with black tip8 to the 



feathers. 

 a'. Nape with a black patch. 



a". Larger : throat and chest with dusky 



streaks magmtm, p 5(i4. 



b" . Smaller: no streaks on the throat cinereum, p. oG.5. 



h' . Nape olive-brown ; no black on this part. . . , k])idoc€j)halum,T^.5Q7, 



b. No rutous on fore part of crown. 



c'. Ear-coverts tawny rufous, as also sides of 

 breast and band across breast ; head dull 

 ashy brown with narrow pale shaft-lines . . eryihrote, p. 567. 



d' . Ear-coverts ashy brown ; head uniform black- 

 ish brown : upper tail-coverts and basal 

 shade of tail ferruginous ; on breast a few 

 dusky ashy streaks offine, p. 569. 



e' . Ear-coverts black; distinct white eyebrow; 



throat white ; bar across breast ashy grey . . albigulare, p. 568. 



1. Malacopterum magnum. 



Malacopterou magnum, Eyton. P. Z. *S'. 1839, p. 103 ; Gray, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 202 (1846) ; Bp. Cojtsp. i. p. 259 (1850) ; Ilorsf. if- Moore, 

 Cat. B. B.I. Co. Mils. i. p. 225 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, 

 no 4730 (1869) ; Hume Sf Davis. Sir. F. 1878, p. 270 ; Hume, Sir. 

 F. 1879, pp. 61, 95 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 258 ; Kelhain, Ibis, 

 1831, p. 511 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 61 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. 

 i. p. 55 (1883). _ 



Malacopteron majus, Blyth, J. A. S. Banff, xvi. p. 461 (1847) ; id. Cat. 

 B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 148 (1849), App. p. xxi (1852) ; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 225 (1874) ; Ticeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 309. 



Adult. General colour above brown, more rufescent on the lower 

 back and rump, the upper tail-coverts l)right chestnut ; wing-coverts 

 a little deeper brown than the back, the greater series dusky, ex- 

 ternally somewhat rufescent brown ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 light brown, the secondaries rufous on their outer webs ; tail-fea- 

 thers reddish brown, lighter brown at their ends, the outer ones 

 more distinctly reddish towards their bases : forehead and crown 

 rufous, the hinder crown and nape black, the adjoining feathers of 

 the crown black at base, rufous at tips ; lores and a faintly indi- 

 cated eyebrow ashy grey, with tiny whitish streaks on the latter ; 

 feathers round the eye ashy white ; feathers below the eye ashy 

 grey, minutely streaked with white ; ear-coverts pale brown, with 

 indistinct fulvescent shaft-lines ; cheeks white, washed with ashy ; 

 throat and under surface of body white, with a shade of ashy on the 

 breast, more distinct on the sides, the flanks also washed with ashy 

 brown ; under tail-coverts white ; on the lower throat and fore 

 neck some more or less distinct spots of dull ashy ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy white ; ([uills dusky brown below, nar- 

 rowly margined with w-hite along the inner web ; " bill horny, the 

 lower mandible yellowish ; legs pale slate ; iris pale brown " (li. O. 

 Wardlaw Rmnsaij) ; " legs and feet and claws blue, varying in 



