20. MALACOPTKUUM. 565 



shade from pale plumbeous to pale smalt-blue ; upper mandible 

 dark horny brown, lower mandible and often the edges of the upper 

 mandible plumbeous blue, or white tinged with blue, fading to bluish 

 white at the tip ; irides varying from carmine to orange-red, appa- 

 rently according to age, as a younger bird has them pale sienna- 

 brown " (Davison). Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 8'2, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 0-85. 



The amount of spotting on the throat varies with individuals, and 

 extends sometimes up the whole of the chin, and downwards as 

 far as the breast, giving a distinctly streaked appearance. Some 

 birds, too, are much more dusky than others, less fulvescent brown 

 on the back, and having less rufous on the rump and tail. This is 

 especially noticeable in one of Capt. Wardlaw Eamsays specimens 

 from Sarawak (//. Everett). 



According to Mr. Hume the males are larger than the females, 

 having the wing 3-35 to 3-7 and the tarsus ()-9 to U'9.5 inches, as 

 against wing 3-2 to 3-25 and tarsus 0*8 to 0-9 in the hen bird. 



I could only find in Mr. Eyton's collection the single type of 

 M. magnum (no. 2577 of his Catalogue, p. 194). The supposed 

 female bird described by him was no longer in his cabinet at the 

 time of his death ; but there can be no doubt that it was a specimen 

 of the small species M. cinereum, as pointed out by Mr. Hume. 

 See my remarks (infra, p. 566) on the latter species. 



Hub. From. Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan peninsula to 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Malacca ( Wallace). Gould Collection. 



c. cj ad. sk. Klang, Salangore, Ma- A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



layan peninsula, April 

 15, 1879 (Xr.Z>ffmo?i). 



d. e. Ad. ; /. 2 Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 ad. sk. 



g. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Eyton Collection. (Type 



of species.) 

 h. (J ad. sk. Borneo. Gould Collection. 



*', *• d $ ad. sk. Sibu, Sarawak, Feb. A. H. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



28, 1875. 



2. Malacopterum cinereum. 



Malacopteron cinereus, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 209 (1846). 

 Malacopteron raasnuiu (non Eyton), Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xvi. p. 461 



(1847). 

 Napothera coronata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 358 (1850); Bli/th, Ibis, 1870, 



p. 170. 

 Malacopteron coronatum, Sfrickl. in Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Sue. 



p. x.xi (1852); Ilorsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. p. 226 



(1854) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 275; Motley ^ Dillw. Nat. HisL 



Lahuan, p. 21, pi. 5 (1855). 

 Malacopteron cinereum, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, uo. 4731 (180'J): 



Hume, ,Str. F. 187S, p. 271, lf^79, ji. CI ; Oafr.". !>'. Brit. Burnt. 



i. p. 55 (1H8;1). 



