20. MALACOPTERU.M. 569 



(Alfred Everett). Total length b-Q inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-95, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus U-8. 



Hah. Malayan peninsula and Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Malacca. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Borneo. Purchased. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Lumbidan, N.W. Borneo. Hugh l.ow, Esq. [C.]. 

 e,f. (S ad. sk. Bintulu, W. Borneo. Alfred Everett, Esq. [C.]. 

 g. d ad. sk. Paku, Sarawak, Dec. 1878. Henry ICverett, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Malacopterum affine. 



Trichastoma affine, Bli/t/i, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 795 (1842). 



Alcippe aifinis, Bhjth, J. A. 8. Beng. xiii. p. 384 (1844), xvi. p. 4G2 



(1847); id. Cat. B. Mus. As. 8uc. p. 148 (184'J) ; Bj). Cunsii. i. 



p. 259 (1850) ; Horsf. 8,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 406 



(1854) ; Moure, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 277. 

 Malacopteron affine, Gray, Gen.B. i. p. 209 (1846); id. Hand~l. B. 



i. p. 317, no. 4733 (18(j9). 

 Napotliera atricapilla, Bp. Consp. i. p. 359 (1850, ex Midi. MSS. in 



Mus. Ludg.) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47. 

 Setaria affinis, Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 231 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 258. 

 Malacopterum affinis, Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 01. 



Adult male. General colour above dark fulvous-brown, more 

 rufescent on the lower back and rump, the latter with a narrow 

 band of silky white plumes, concealed by the long leathers of the 

 lower back ; upper tail-coverts bright ferruginous ; tail-feathers 

 dull brown, edged with ferruginous on both webs, the feathers 

 appearing duller brown towards tlieir ends; wing-coverts dusky 

 brown, margined with the same colour as the back ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally like the back, the inner secondaries washed with 

 ferruginous on the outer webs, the primaries externally edged 

 with ashy ; crown of head and nape blackish brown, more or less 

 washed with olive-brown ; base of forehead washed with ashy ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye ashy whitish : car-coverts ashy, with 

 indistinct whitish shaft-lines ; above the ear-coverts a slight shade 

 of ashy ; cheeks whitish, mottled with ashy tips to the feathers ; 

 throat and under surface of body white, shaded with ashy grey on 

 the fore neck and chest, forming an indistinct pectoral band ; sides 

 of body also washed with ashy brown ; thighs externally brown, 

 internally white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; 

 quills dusky brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web, 

 inclining to white near the base ; "legs dark or bluish lead-colour; 

 iris bright brown or dark raw sienna ; bill bluish lead-colour, the 

 culmen darker " {A, H. Everett). Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 2-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male, but smaller. Total 

 length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-65, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-8. 



The colour of the brown cap varies, and it is often so light as to 

 be very little darker than the back ; nevertheless the cap is always 

 present, more or less distinct, and forming the chief characteristic 



