25. MIXORNIS. 577 



margins chestnut, and the inner secondaries entirely chestnut like 

 the back ; tail chestnut, rather lighter reddish on the margins ; 

 entire under surface of body bright yellow, the throat and fore neck 

 rather broadly streaked with black, the sides of the body and under 

 tail-coverts greenish ; flanks internally yellowish, externally rufous- 

 brown ; under wing-coverts yellow, with a few duskj' markings on 

 the outer and greater series ; inner lining of quills dull brown, the 

 inner web yellowish at base, shading into pale rufous towards the 

 tips of the quills ; " bill bluish slate-colour ; legs greenish ; iris 

 brown " (li. G. Wardlaw Ramsay). Total length 5*3 inches, cul- 

 men 0"55, wing 2-35, tail 2-4, tarsus 0'7. 



Hah. From Cochin China and Southern Tenasserim down the 

 Malayan peninsula to Sumatra. 



a. S ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



b. Ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0. 

 c-e. Ad.sk. Malacca (Cawdor). India Museum. 



f. Ad. sk. Singapore. Gould CoUectiou. 



g. Ad. sk. Singapore. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C] 

 h. (5 ad. sk. Malewoon, Tenasserim, E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.]. 



Jan. 1, 1877. 



3. Mixornis woodi. 



Mixornis woodi, Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new .ser. Zool. i. p. .331 

 (1876); Tiveedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 617; Wardlaw Ramsay, Orn. 

 Works Tiueedd. p. 657 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above ashy grey 

 with an olivaceous wash, the latter colour a Httlo more clear on the 

 sides of the neck, which resemble the mantle, the lower back 

 shading into olive-brown washed with rufous ; upper tail-coverts 

 chestnut-brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, deeper towards the tips 

 and margined with chestnut ; wing-coverts light rufous, the quills 

 dark brown, externally rufous ; the innermost secondaries entirely 

 of the latter colour ; frontal plumes and lores hoary white with 

 narrow black shaft-streaks ; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts 

 ashy grey, the latter slightly washed with olive ; cheeks whitish, 

 with dusky shaft-lines ; chin white ; rest of under surface of body 

 sulphur-yellow, the sides of the body and under tail-coverts greenish 

 olive, the throat narrowly lined with black hair-hke shaft-streaks ; 

 under wing-coverts and inner margin of quills sulphur-yellow ; 

 " bill dark grey, the mandible paler ; legs greenish olive ; iris 

 ochreous orange" {A. H. Everett). Total length 5"2 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 2-35, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Island of Palawan, Philippine archipelago, 



a, b. Ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Prof. J. B. Steere [C], 



c, S ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Pahiwan, Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 



Jan, 1878 {A. Everett). Ramsay. 



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