588 TIMELIID-E. 



30. ANUROPSIS*. 



Range. Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, extending into the Philip- 

 pine archipelago. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Top of head brown ; sides of face grey malaccensis, p. 588. 



b. Top of head grey like sides of neck ; ear-coverts 



grey cinereiceps, p. 590. 



1. Anm'opsis malaccensis. 



Brachypteryx malaccensis, Haiil. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 402 ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 209 (1846) ; Bp. C. B. xxxviii. p. 60 (1854) ; Salvad. 

 Ucc. Born. p. 223 (1874) ; Shurpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 258 ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1881, p. 797 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 59. 



Brachypteryx poliogenis, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 93, pi. 31. 



Myiothera poliogenys, Mi'iU. 3ISS. in Mus. Lugd., unde 



Turdirostris poliogenys, Bjy. Consp. i. p. 218 (1850). 



Trichostoma poliogenys, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47. 



Macronus poliogenys, "Gmy, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4770 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above dark brown, rather more rufescent 

 on the rump ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers reddish brown, 

 the latter more rufous on the edges of the feathers ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the lesser and median series with paler shaft^lines, 

 the greater series somewhat darker brown ; quills dark brown, ex- 

 ternally olivaceous brown ; crown of head dark brown like the 

 back ; base of forehead and eyebrow ashy grey ; lores whitish ; ear- 

 coverts and feathers below the eye dark ashy grey, lighter behind 

 the ear-coverts ; throat and centre of body pure white, the sides of 

 the neck, sides of breast, and flanks, as well as the thighs and under 

 tail-coverts, light tawny buff, the axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 of the same colour ; " legs pinkish white ; iris crimson " {A. H. 

 Everett). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-35, tail 1-2, 

 tarsus 1"1. 



Yery great variation in the coloui' of this species seems to take 

 place ; but at present I am unable to account for the differences in 

 colour except on the score of age. The sexes do not seem to diflfer 

 in plumage ; but the Bornean birds are always richer in tint 



* ? Anuropsis pyrriiogenys. 



Myiothera pyrrhogenys, Temm. PL Col. ii. pi. 442. fig. 2 (1827). 

 Macronus pyrrhogenys, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 210 (1846); id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 318, uo. 4757 (1869). 

 Turdirostris pyrrhogenys, Bp. Consp. i. p. 218 (1850). 

 ? Brachypteryx pyrrhogenys, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 221 (1874). 



Hah. Java. 



I have not been able to identify tliis species, which appears to resemble my 

 Malacopterum erythrote. 



