586 TlMELIIDiE. 



2. Ptilopyga leucogrammica. 



Cacopitta leucogrammica, -B^j. Consp. i. p. 257 (ex Temm. MSS. in 



Mus. LiKjd.). 

 Macronus leucogrammicus, Gray, Hand-l, B. i. p. 318, no. 4753 



(1869). 

 Turdinus leucogrammicus, Salvad. JJcc.Born. p. 217 (1874) ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 11. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous-brown, brighter and 

 more chestnut-brown on the lower back ; wing-coverts dull chest- 

 nut, the lesser and median series with indistinctly indicated pale 

 shaft-lines, traces of which are seen on the mantle ; quills dark 

 brown, externally chestnut ; tail-feathers dark rufous-brown, dusky 

 on the inner weljs ; head more dusky than the back, the feathers 

 with obscure blackish edges, producing a slightly scaled appear- 

 ance ; base of forehead streaked with white ; lores white, as also 

 the feathers round the eye ; an eyebrow, as well as the ear-coverts 

 and sides of neck, dull white, mottled with ashy blackish margins 

 to the feathers ; the fore part of the ear-coverts black, forming a 

 spot ; cheeks and throat white, with very narrow blackish edges to 

 the feathers ; remainder of the under surface of body flammulated, 

 the feathers being white in the centre with distinct black margins, 

 giving the appearance of very broad streaks ; thighs ashy brown 

 washed with rufous ; under tail-coverts rufescent brown, with white 

 shaft-streaks ; under wing-coverts dusky brown, with paler shaft- 

 lines ; the edge of the wing mottled with a few white plumes mar- 

 gined with blackish ; quills dusky below, with a faintly indicated 

 shade of ashy rufous along the inner web ; " legs very dark lead- 

 colour; iris dark brown" (A. Everett). Total length 6-2 inches, 

 wing 2-9, tail 1-9, tarsus 1-3. 



Hub. Borneo. 



«. 2 ad. sk. Biutulu, W. Borneo. Alfred H. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



28. PTILOCICHLA. 



Ptilocichla, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd series, i. p. 332 



(1876) P. falcata. 



Mange. Palawan Island, Philippine archipelago. 



1. Ptilocichla falcata. 



Ptilocichla falcata, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. 2nd ser. i. p. 332 

 (1876) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 657 (1881). 



Adult male. Top of the head and nape rufous-brown ; sides of the 

 forehead and a stripe behind the eye fawn-rufous ; lores narrow and 

 white ; spot before the eye and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and throat 

 white, with a narrow malar streak of blackish ; entire back blackish 

 brown, the feathers broadly centred with fulvous ; the feathers of 

 the lower back long, but somewhat sickle-shaped and hanging over 



