25. MixoRNis. 581 



brighter chestnut ; qiiills sepia-brown, externally rufous, the inner 

 secondaries entirely of this colour ; tail-feathers brown with rufous 

 margins ; base of forehead, feathers over the eye, sides of face, sides 

 of neck, throat, and entire breast dark slaty grey, shading off into 

 ashy on the middle of the abdomen, the flanks, vent, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts being light fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale fulvous ; quills dusky brown below, fulvescent or 

 pale rufous along the edge of the inner web ; " bill dark plumbeous 

 blue ; visible skin of cheeks and orbits from pure light to dull dirty 

 smalt-blue ; legs, feet and claws very pale, almost white, tinged 

 greenish or yellowish green ; iris madder-red to deep brown ( W. 

 Davison). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-35, tail 

 2-15, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-2, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan peninsula 

 to Sumatra. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Malewoon,S. Tenasserim, E. W. Gates, Esq. rC.l. 



Jan. 9, 1877. 



b. $ ad. sk. Mt. Ophir, Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C,]. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Malacca (Canto?-). India Museum. 



e. Ad. sk. Malacca. Andrew Charlton, Esq.[P.]. 



(Type of S. acidirostris, Eyton.) 

 /. Ad. sk. Singapore. Gould Collection. 



g,h. c3' $ ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



i. Ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CJ. 



h. Ad. sk. [Java.] Purchased. 



8. Mixornis bicolor. 



Timalia, sp., Sdater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215. 



Timalia bicolor, BIyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 46 ; Grm/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 315, 



no. 4701 (1869). 

 Cyanoderma erythropterum, Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 213 (1874, tiec 



Bhjth). 

 Cyanoderma bicolor, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 105 ; id. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 40, 1877, p. 11; id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 3-39; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 257; 



Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 60. 



Adult male. General colour above bright chestnut on the centre of 

 the back, shading into fulvous-brown on the lower back and rump ; 

 wing-coverts bright chestnut ; quills dark sepia-brown, externally 

 bright chestnut, the innermost secondaries entirely of the latter 

 colour; tail rufous-brown, the feathers margined with slightly 

 brighter chestnut ; head and neck all round dark slaty grey, ex- 

 tending onto the mantle, where it becemes dull grey washed with ru- 

 fous ; entire throat and breast dark slaty grey, gradually shading off 

 on the belly ; the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts pale fulvous- 

 brown, as also the thighs, the latter being slightly tinged with 

 rufous; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale tawny rufous with 

 greyish bases ; quills dull brown below, rufescent along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " bill dark bluish black ; legs pale grey-brown ; 



