568 TIMELIIDJ;. 



and having similar pale shaft-lines ; greater series and qnills sepia- 

 brown, externally ochreous brown ; rump slightly more rufesccnt 

 than the back, with halt-concealed long white phimes, forming a 

 narrow bar, which is nearly concealed by the long plumes of the 

 rump ; upper tail-coverts light tawny rufous ; tail-feathers light 

 reddish brown, washed with tawny rufous on the edges ; crown of 

 head dull olivaceous brown, contrasting with the back but yet not 

 forming a cap, the feathers streaked with whitish shaft-lines ; the 

 forehead lighter brown streaked with fulvous ; lores butfy white, 

 mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; feathers round the eye 

 reddish buff, with an indistinct eyebrow of the same colour ; ear- 

 coverts light chestnut ; sides of neck tawny rufous ; cheeks white 

 anteriorly, tawny behind ; throat and under surface of body pure 

 white, with a band of light tawny rufous across the fore neck, joining 

 the sides of the breast, which are also tawny rufous ; sides of the 

 body and thighs fulvcscent washed with tawny ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries tawny buff; quills ashy brown, light rufous along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 2'65, tail 2, tarsus 1-05. 

 Uah. Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Borneo. Turchased. 



5. Malacopterum albigulare. 



Setaria albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 385 (1844), xvi. 



p. 462 (1847) ; 8alvad. Ucc. Born. p. 232 (1874). 

 Macronus albogularis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846). 

 Alcippe albogularis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 148 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 260 (1850) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Sei. Torino, iii. 



p. 531 (1868). 

 Alcippe ? fuscipes, J. Verr. in Cat. Lafr. Coll. p. 77 {ex Lafr. MSS.). 

 Malacopteron albigularis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, no. 4739 



(ism). 



Brachypteryx albogularis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 475 (1872). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olivaceous brown, becoming 

 rather more rufescent on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 covorts : wing-coverts light brown, somewhat washed with ashy and 

 narrowly edged with the same olivaceous brown as the back ; quills 

 dusky brown, externally olivaceous brown ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, margined with rufescent brown, the outer feathers narrowly 

 fringed with whitish at the tip ; crown of head dark slaty grey ; 

 lores and a narrow eyebrow white, the feathers pointed and stif- 

 fened ; feathers round and below the eye as well as the car-coverts 

 black, the latter washed with grey posteriorly ; sides of face and 

 cheeks, as well as the throat, pure white ; across the chest a broad 

 band of ashy grey, with a few dusky streaks in the centre ; centre 

 of breast and abdomen white, the sides of the body, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts pale fawn-buff; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light fawn-buff or ashy, washed with the latter colour ; 

 edge of wing white ; quills light brown below, ashy along the inner 

 web; " bill black ; legs leaden grey: iris bright red or crimson" 



