600 T1MELIID.E. 



closing over the culmen so as to form a frontal band, the feathers 

 above and below the eye, and the cheeks dull grey or greyish white, 

 a little browner on the cheeks ; chin and throat white, with a grey 

 shade, most of the feathers black-shafted ; a pale olive-brown band 

 across the breast ; lower breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, and tibial 

 plumes grey, darker and bluer on the sides, and the tips of some of 

 the flank-feathers with a brown tinge ; lower tail-coverts pale fawny 

 brown ; wiug-liuing and axillaries pure white ; the posterior por- 

 tion of the forehead and the crown bright ferruginous chestnut, the 

 feathers dai-k-shafted ; nape, back, and lesser wing-coverts dull 

 brownish olive ; wings and tail hair-brown, with the visible por- 

 tions in the closed wing everywhere suffused with a faintly rufescent 

 olive shade ; the tail faintly and obsoletely barred : the edge of the 

 wing white ; " irides a deep brown ; lower mandible fleshy pink ; 

 upper mandible plumbeous brown ; legs, feet, and claws dark fleshy 

 tinged with green " ( W. Davison). Total length 4-6 inches, bill 

 at front 0-52, wing 2-05, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-65. (Hume, I. c.) 



Hah. Known at present from the single specimen collected by 

 Mr. Davison at the foot of Gunong Pula, Johore, llalay peninsula, 

 and now in Mr. Hume's collection. 



4. Stachyridopsis pyrrhops. 



Stachyris pyrrhops, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passei-es, pi. 78. 



tigs. 4, 4' (nos. 410, 411); id. in Grai/'s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); 



id. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 379 (1844)t ; Gray, Lid Mamin. etc. Nepal 

 j)rcs. Hodgs. p. 75 (1846) ; BhitJi, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 150 



(1«49) ; Jforsf. i^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 232 (1854); 



Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 21 (18G3) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95. 

 Timalia pyii-hops, Gray, Gen. B. iii., App. p. 10 (1849). 

 Stachyris pyrops, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 23 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 332 



(1850). 

 Prinia sp. no. 132, Adams, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 488. 

 Timaha pyrops, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 315, no. 4708 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, a little more dingy 

 on the mantle ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills brown, externally 

 olive-brown ; tail-feathers light brown, narrowly edged with olive- 

 brown ; crown of head ochraceous brown, much lighter on the fore- 

 head, the shafts of the feathers black and stiffened, producing a 

 bristly appearance; sides of face light ochraceous brown, the ear- 

 coverts somewhat ashy ; a spot in front of the eye and chin black ; 

 remainder of under surface light ochraceous brown, the sides of the 

 body washed with ashy ; under tail-coverts ochraceous like the 

 abdomen : under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with 

 ochre near the edge of the wing ; quiUs light brown below, white 



t This description occurs in a paper of Blyth's ; and although the latter 

 refers to the species as Mr. Hodgson's, the diagnoses would appear to be his 

 own. Blyth, however, always seemed to regard the names as having been given 

 by Mr. Hodgson in the passage referred to ; and so it seems right to credit them 

 to the latter. 



