574 TIMELIID^. 



black ; cheeks and throat yellowish white ; rest of under surface 

 purer white : the flank-feathers reddish brown on their edges, 

 causing a streaked appearance ; the fore neck and breast slightly 

 varied by a few blackish edges to the feathers ; the sides of the fore 

 neck mottled with blackish feathers with large ovate white centres ; 

 under wing-coverts dull white, mottled with dusky margins to the 

 feathers, blacker and more distinct on the edge of the wing ; quills 

 brown below, ashy along the edge of the inuer web ; " iris brown " 

 {Doria). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-6, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Malacca and Borneo. In the latter island it has been found 

 in the north-western part of the country, as far south as Sarawak. 



a. S ad. sk. Mt. Ophir, Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. StackhousePiDwill[P.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Malacca {Br. Cantor). India Museum (c/. Horsf. & 



Moore, t. c). 

 e, f. Ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum. 



9."Ad. sk. Malacca. Eytou Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Charlton [P.]. (Type 



of Bruchypteryx maculata, 



Eyton.) 

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



k. Ad. sk. Sarawak. Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



24. DASYCROTOPHA. ^ 



Type. 

 Dasycrotopha, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 114 D. speciosa. 



Eange. Confined to the Philippine Islands. 



1. Dasycrotopha speciosa. 



Dasycrotopha speciosa, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 114, pi. ix. p. 286; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Orn. Mem. Tiveedd. p. 657 (1881). 



AduU male (Valencia, Negros, Aug. 1877 ; A. H. Everett : type 

 of species). General colour above ashy tinged with olive, and marked 

 with white shaft-lines down each feather of the back ; lower back 

 and rump olive-yellow, a little browner on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 wing-coverts brown, extei'nally washed with olive-yellow, the shaft- 

 lines whitish or yellowish white ; primary-coverts and quills dusky 

 brown, externally edged with olive-yellow, the secondaries more 

 broadly washed on the outer web, the innermost with white shaft- 

 lines ; tail-feathers light brown, externally edged with olive-brown 

 or yellowish olive ; lores, forehead, and feathers round the eye 

 orange-yellow ; crown of head black, with a tuft of deep orange 

 plumes on each side springing from above the eye ; occiput, nape, 

 and hind neck olive-yellow, the nape slightly mottled with black, 

 the hind neck with yellow shaft-lines ; ear-coverts covered with 

 white hair-like feathers ; base of cheeks and chin orange-yellow ; 

 hinder cheeks and upper throat black, with almost imperceptible 

 yellowish-white shaft-lines ; sides of neck, lower throat, and fore 

 neck yellow spotted with black ; centre of body pale yellow, the 



