16. SYRNICM. 265 



buffy white, more narrowly banded with brown, forming a lon"-itu- 

 dinal shoulder-band ; head and wig uniform chocolate-brown • the 

 hind neck orange-chestnut, forming a distinct collar ; wing-coverts 

 duU chestnut, Ughter than the back, but banded with dark brown in 

 the same regidar manner, the bars of both colours being about equal 

 m breadth, exceptmg on the primary-coverts, where the brown pre- 

 dominates ; quiUs dark brown, banded with dull chestnut on the 

 outer web and with ashy brown on the inner, the inner secondaries 

 more equally banded and uniform with the wing-coverts ; the under 

 surface of the wing dark brown, with pale rulescent bands on the 

 inner web, paling into fulvous near the base of the feathers, where 

 the bauds are much broader ; upper taU-coverts banded with chest- 

 nut and dark brown, more narrowly than on any other part of the 

 upper surface ; tail brown, tipped and banded with dull chestnut 

 iike the back, the bars fourteen in number, the under surface much 

 paler than the upper, the bars on the outer feathers fulvous ; fore- 

 head and eyebrow, as well as the sides of the face, bright orano-e- 

 chestnut, all the feathers round the eye blackish ; lores whitish, the 

 teathers somewhat tinged with rufous, the shafts long and blackish 

 at the tips ; throat and chest orange- chestnut, the chin paler and 

 streaked with brown ; fore neck and chest chocolate-brown the 

 breast dark brown barred with rufous like the upper surface; sides 

 ot neck and facial ruff dark brown ; rest of under surface of body 

 orange-buff, narrowly barred with brown, each bar being contcrmi- 

 nously margined with rufous, the whole of the breast varied with 

 silvery white bars, very broad and distinct ; leg-feathers dark orange- 

 butt or light chestnut, very indistinctly barred with dark bro^^ • 

 under wing-coverts orange-buff, with the same narrow bars as the 

 breast, the greater ones fulvous barred with brown, the tips entirely 

 brown, this senes of coverts thus resembling the inner hnin- of the 

 wing. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 11-5 tail 6-5 

 tarsus 1-85. • o , , 



Hah. Borneo. 



a. Ad. St. Borneo. Purchased. 



b. c? ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R. VVaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



14. Syrnium nuchale. 



S^-rnium woodfordi, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 21 (1857, nee Smith) ; 

 Cass. Pr. Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 32. r \ , ,, 



Syrnium nuchale, Sharpc, Ibis, 1870, p. 487. 



Nestling. General colour light ta^Tiy, with whitish tips to most of 

 the feathers, broader on those of the scapulars and secondaries, which 

 are also barred with white ; tail dark bro^-n, with lighter brown 

 cross bands and tipped with whitish ; feathers in front of and over 

 the eye pure white ; plumes round the eye blackish ; the ear-coverts 

 again whitish ; under surface light tawny, paler on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, some of the breast-feathers with whitish tips, be- 

 fore which is a narrow brownish subtcrminal line, a fe^ feathers 



