576 TIMELlIDJi, 



d" . Above deep chestnut, the head deep slaty 

 grrey ; throat and breast deep slaty grey ; 



flanks riifoiis-browu bicolor, p. 581. 



b. Tail-feathers tipped with white; upper sur- 

 face grey broadly streaked with white ; head 

 rufous ". capitalis, p. 582. 



1. Mixornis flavicollis. 



Timaha flavicollis, Mull. MS. in Mm. Ltigd. ; Gray, Haml-l. B. i. 



p. .316, no. 4722 (1869). 

 Mixornis flavicollis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850, e.r Mull. MS.); 



Wald. Ibis, 1872, p. 376. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish brown with a slight 

 wash of olive, the head and upper tail-coverts light rufous ; wing- 

 coverts yellowish brown, the quills sepia-brown, externally washed 

 with yellowish brown, the margins of the primaries inclining to 

 greyish towards the tips ; tail reddish brown, waved under certain 

 lights and washed with light rufous, especially near the base ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and the ear-coverts light grey, with narrow 

 silvery-white shaft-streaks ; entire throat and chest pale tawny, 

 with very tiny blackish sliaft-streaks, scarcely visible ; the rest of 

 the under surface of body buffy white, shading off into greyish 

 white on the under tail-coverts ; the sides of the body dull tawny 

 buff, washed with grey on lower flanks ; under wing-coverts white, 

 with a slight wash of tawny colour near the outer edge of the 

 wing ; quills dusky brown below, the inner web edged with whitish. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2-2, tail 2*2, tarsus 0-75. 



Hah. Java. 



a, b. (5 ad, sk. East Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Mixornis gularis. 



Motacilla gularis, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 312 (1820) ; Walden, 

 P. Z. S. 1866, p. 547. 



Timalia gularis, Horsf. Zool. Researches in Java. pi. — (1824). 



Prinia pileata, Blyth', J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 204 (1842). 



Mixornis gidaris, Bli/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 149 (1849) ; Cab. 

 Mus. Hein. Th. i.p. 77 (1850) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 

 Mus. i. p. 229 (1854) ; Wald. His, 1872, p. 376 ; Hunie ^ Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 266; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 60,95; Kel- 

 ham, Ibis, 1881, p. 519 ; Oates, B. Brit. Bttnn. i. p. 51 (1883). 



Mixornis sumatrana, Bp. Consp. i. p. 217 (1850). 



Mixornis similis, Blyth, Ibis, 186.5, p. 47. 



Timalia sumatrana. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4720 (1869). 



Timalia similis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4723 (1869). 



Adult male. Above reddish brown, the head and sides of neck 

 deep chestnut, as also the upper tail-coverts ; lores and frontal 

 plumes dusky lead-colour, the ear-coverts also dusky with a distinct 

 wash of reddish brown ; over the eye a slight indication of yellow 

 feathers ; wing-coverts' chestnut ; the quills sepia-brown, the 



