592 TlMELnDiE. 



under surface of body white, with a tinge of fawn-colour on the 

 lower throat; sides of bodj' light brown, ashy on the sides of the 

 breast ; thighs white internally, brown externally ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries brown washed 

 with fulvous ; quills brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-15, tail 

 1"55, tarsus 0'9.. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male, but a little larger. 

 Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0"6, wing2'35, tail 1*7, tarsus 0"85. 



Hah. Aru Islands. 



a,b. c? 2 ad. Am Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



sk. 

 c. Ad. sk. Aru Islands (Cockerell). F. D. Godman and 0, Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



32. CORYTHOCICHLA. 

 Range. Hills of North-eastern Bengal to Tenasserim. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Breast rufescent washed with ashy ; abdomen 



creamy buff in the centre ; throat ashy, with broad 



dusky centres to the feathers h-evicaudata, p. 592. 



h. Throat and breast ashy, with broad dusky centres 



to the feathers striata, p. 593. 



1. Corythocichla brevicaudata. 



Turdinus brevicaudatus, Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 272 (1855) ; 



Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; Hume 8f Davison, Sir. F. 1878, pt. i. 



p. 262 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 462, 1879, p. 95 ; Bingham, Str. 



F. 1880, p. 179 ; Oates, B. Brit. Btcrm. p. 60 (1883). 

 Macronus brevicaudatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 319, no. 4777 (1869). 



Adult female. General colour above brown, the feathers of the 

 head and mantle grey in the centre, with white shaft-streaks and 

 margined with black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform brown, slightly shaded with ashy on the lesser and median 

 series, with narrow pale shaft-lines, the greater series darker brown 

 with tiny white spots at the tip ; primary-coverts and quills dark 

 brown, externally washed with brown of a slightly olivaceous shade, 

 the inner secondaries with a white spot at the tip ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, externally olivaceous brown ; lores and a distinct eye- 

 brow, as well as the cheeks, sides of face, and ear-coverts ashy grey, 

 with indistinct shaft-lines of white ; throat streaked, the feathers 

 white on the edges with broad centres of dusky blackish ; fore neck, 

 breast, and under surface of body light tawny ; centre of breast and 

 abdomen creamy buff ; sides of body and flanks browner ; the 

 feathers of the sides of the fore neck delicate ashy in the centre 

 with whitish shaft-lines, this ashy shade less distinct on the flanks 

 and sides of the body, the shaft-lines being also less distinctly indi- 



