51. KHINOMYIAS. 367 



earthy brown, lightlj- washed with olive, slightly more rufesceut on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts, some of the rump-plumes with 

 concealed white bases ; head dingy ash-brown, as well as the sides 

 of the face and car-coverts, the crown with a slight shade of dull 

 greenish blue, especially round the eye ; scapulars rather darker than 

 the back ; least wing-coveits dark brown, tinged with a wash of 

 green, the outer ones tipped with ferruginous ; remainder of wing- 

 coverts chestnut; primaries dusky brown, externally edged with 

 ashy ; secondaries chestnut like the coverts, blackish on their inner 

 ■webs ; tail entirely chestnut ; under surface of body rufous-buff, 

 whiter towards the vent ; sides of body and flanks earthy brown, 

 washed with ashy on the sides of the breast; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries deep rufous-buff; quills dusky brown below, edged 

 with rufous on the inner web, more broadly on the secondaries ; 

 " bill dark horn-colour ; legs pale leaden ; iris bright brown " (A. 

 Everett) ; " upper mandible pale horny brown, the lower mandible 

 fleshy white ; legs, feet, and claws plumbeous olive ; iris duU red " 

 (Davison). Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 0*6. 

 _ Young male. Resembles the adult female at first, but is generally 

 distinguished by some greyish-blue feathers on some part of the 

 plumage ; generally the fore part of the bird above and below is 

 blue, the back and abdomen retaining the female plumage, and the 

 chestnut wings and tail stiU remaining. 



In a young female, accorduig to ilr. Davison, the legs and feet are 

 pale horny red, the iris pale red speckled with white. 



Hab. Extreme south of Tenasserim provinces, Malacca, Sumatra, 

 Borneo. 



a. cJ num. sk. Malacca. Hon. E. India Co. [P.]. 



b. c? imm. sk. Malacca. W. Ilanev, Esq. [P.]. 



'■• 2 ad. sk. Mount Ophir, Ma- A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



lacca. 



d, e. S ad. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M. A. Bouvier. 



.f,y- 6 $ ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



h. S juv. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. rC.1. 



«• 2 ad. sk. N.W. Borneo. Hugh Low, Esq. [0.1. ' 



k, I. c? 2 ad. sk. Lumbidan. Governor Ussher [C.J 



m. S juv. sk. Lumbidan. Governor Ussher [Cl. 



n. c5'ad.; o. (J juv. sk. Bintulu. Alfred Everett, Esq. fc.l 



P- 2 ad. sk. Sibu. .Alfred Everett, Esq. [C. |. 



9- 2 ad. sk. Sarawak. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



51. EHINOMYIAS. 



Setiiria, pt., mictt. recent, (nee Bli/lh). 



Ranije. Borneo and the Philippine island of Basilan. 



Ken '" '''*^ Species. 



a. Tail brown on the inner web, rufous-brown only on 



the outer ; ear-coverts brown jKctoralis, p. .368. 



b. Tail entirely chestnut ; ear-coverts grev rufcavda, p. 368. 



