6. ALciPPE. 623 



the rump, aud rufcscent on the upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; quills brovrn, externally like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts light rufous-brown ; tail-feathers rufous-browu, a little 

 lighter on the outer margins, the outermost feathers with a scarcely 

 perceptible pale tip ; head and hind neck ashy with a faint shade of 

 fulvous-brown ; lores dull whitish ; ear-coverts and sides of face ashy ; 

 fore part of cheeks whitish, washed with ashy margins to the feathers ; 

 throat aud under surface of body whitish, more or less overshaded 

 with ashy, the fore neck and sides of breast more particularly ashy ; 

 sides of bod}- ashy shaded with fulvous-brown ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white, as also the edge of the wing ; quills dusky brown 

 below, ashy along the edge of the inner web ; " biU blackish ; feet 

 reddish grey, the soles dirty orange ; iris grey" {Cantor). Total 

 length o'l inches, culmen 0"55, wing 2-55, tail 2-3, tarsus 0'8. 

 Hah. Malayan peninsula and Borneo. 



a. Ad. sk. Malacca. Eyton Collection. 



b. S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Malacca. India Museum. 



d. Ad. sk. Malacca (Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



c. Ad. sk. Sandakan, N.E. Borneo. W. B. Pryer, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Alcippe phayrii. 



Alcippe phayrii, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xiv. p. 601 (1845) ; ifl Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 148 (1849; ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 260 (18.50) ; 



Hume, Sfr. F. 1874, p. 476; id. 8, Gates, Sir. F. 1875, p. 116; 



Blyth, B. Bnrm. p. 115 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 60 ; An- 



dersoyi, Zool. Exp. Ytmnan, p. 635, pi. xlviii. (1878) ; Hume Sf 



Bavisoti, Sfr. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 260 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; 



Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 179 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 69 



(1883). 

 Malacopteron phayrii. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, no. 4741 (1869). 

 Alcippe magnirostris, Wakl. in Blyth B. Burm. p. 115 (1875) ; id. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 467 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 96. 

 Alcippe fusca, Godic- Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. p. 197 (1876) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 55, 1879, p. 95. 



Adult male. General colour above fulvous-brown, the mantle 

 slightly shaded with ashy, the upper tail-coverts deeper and richer 

 fulvous-brown ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally fulvous-brown, a little brighter than the back ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, barred with dusky under certain lights, the feathers 

 edged with fulvous-brown ; head and hind neck dark ashy grey, with a 

 line of blackish feathers running from behind the eye down the sides 

 of the hind neck ; lores, base of cheeks, aud feathers below the fore 

 part of the eye dull whitish, obscured with dusky ends to the fea- 

 thers ; ear-coverts and cheeks ochraceous brown ; entire under sur- 

 face of body deep fulvous, the centre of the breast and abdomen 

 buffy whitish ; axillaries and under wing-coverts deep fulvous, 

 almost fawn-coloured ; under wing-coverts dusky brown below, ful- 

 vcscent along the edge of the inner web ; " bill yellow at gape, 

 brown on upper mandible ; lower mandible also brown, but the tip 



