20. JIALACOPTERUJI. 567 



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



&-e. Ad. sk. Malacca (C'«n<o;-). India Museum. 



/, g. Ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum. 



h. Ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. "Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



i, k. Ad. sk. Lumbidan, N.W. Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [C.]. 



I. Ad. sk. Borneo. Gould Collection. 



m. c? ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



n, o. (S 2 ad. sk. Tagora. Sarawak. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.J. 



3. Malacopterum lepidocephalum. 



? Fourmillier a calotte rousse, Hombr. 4" Jacq. Voy. Pole Slid, 



^^/as,pl. 19. %. 1. 

 Lanius rutifrons, Licht. Mm. Berol. 

 Malacopteron rutifrons. Cab. Hits. Jlein. Tli. i. p. 05 (1850) ; Licht. 



NomencL p. 11 (1854) ; Salvud, Ucc. Bom. p. 227 (1874:). 

 ? Timalia ruficapilla, Jacq. ^ I'ucher. Voy. Pole Sud, Ois. iii. p. 89 



(185.3). 

 Timalia squamifrons, Bp. Cotnpfes Bend. xxx%-iii. p. 59 (1854, e.v 



PucJu^r. MSS.). 

 Macronus rufifrons, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4792 (1869). 

 Macronus ruticapillus, Gray, t. c. p. 318, no. 4700. 

 Macronus lepidocephalus, Gray, t. c. p. 318, no. 4707. 

 Napothera lepidocephala, Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 170. 



Adult. General colour above fulvescent brown, slightly duller on 

 the mantle ; wing-coverts like the back, the bastard wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts a little more rufous ; greater coverts and quiUs dusky 

 brown, externally like the back, with a slight shade of rufous on 

 some of the outer webs ; upper tail-coverts tawny rufous along the 

 margins ; crown of head orange rufous, tipped with black spots ; the 

 nape like the back, with obsolete dusky fringes to the feathers ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye ashy white ; above the eye some small 

 scaly feathers of fulvous, tipped with black ; ear-coverts pale fulvous- 

 brown, with ycUowish-buif shaft-lines ; cheeks very pale fulvous, 

 with scarcely perceptible dusky edges to the feathers ; throat and 

 under surface of body white ; the fore neck and chest light fulvous, 

 as also the flanks and sides of the body ; thighs fulvous-brown ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts fulvous 

 with white edges. Total length 5-7 inches, culmcu O'G, wing 2-75, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus U-8. 



The female from Java is rather more olivaceous brown than the 

 Sumatran bird above described ; and the under surface is more ful- 

 vescent, so that the white throat does not stand out so conspicuously. 



Hub. Sumatra and Java. 



4. Malacopterum erythrote. (Plate XIII. fig. 2.) 



Adult. General colour above deep ochreous or fulvescent brown, 

 with indistinct pale shaft-lines on the feathers of the hind neck, 

 mantle, and back ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, 



