58. CHYPTOLOPHA. 40o 



Adult male (ilount Gede, Java). General colour above light ashy 

 brown ; least wing-coverts olive-yellowish : median and greater scries 

 dark brown, edged with olive-yeUow and tipped with bright yellow, 

 forming a doable bar across the wing ; primary -coverts and (juills 

 dark brown, externally narrowly margined with olive-yellow ; rump 

 white ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown, tipped with white ; tail- 

 feathers light brown, margined with olive-yeUow ; head and nape 

 chestnut-rutous, with a streak of blackish brown from above the 

 binder part of the eye running down the sides of the nape ; round 

 the eye a ring of white ; sides of face chestnut, the upper edge of 

 the ear-coverts shaded with blackish brown ; lores and cheeks lighter 

 rufous, extending upon the sides of the neck, the loral plumes tipped 

 with black ; under surface of body white, the chin and sides of the 

 throat washed with rufous, extending upou the sides of the upper 

 breast, which are ashy brown : thighs brown, washed with olive- 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and edge of the wing yellow ; axillaries 

 white, washed with yellow ; quills light brown below, whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length li-S inches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 1'95, tail 1*6, tarsus 0'7. 



Hub. Java. 



a. (S ad. sk. Mount Gede, Java (Dr. Bernstein). Leyden Museum [P.]. 



14. Cryptolopha albigularis. 



Abrornis albi gularis, Hodgs. Icmi. ined., Passeres, App. pi. 46 ("no. 



936). 

 Abrornis albogularis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 10(3 (de<cr. princ.) ; 



Ilorsf. ^- M'jore, Cat. B. Mas. E.I. Co. i. p. .340 ; Jerd. B. hid. 



ii. p. 204; Gray, Cat. Hodgf.. Cull. p. 32: Seehohm, Ibis, 1878, 



p. 490. 

 Abrornis albiventris, Jerd. Sf Bh/th, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 200. 

 .Sylvia albogularis, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 217, no. 3077. 



Adult. General colour above yellowish green ; the rump whitish, 

 washed with yellow ; wing-coverts and quills dark brown, edged 

 with the same colour as the back, the margins of the latter rather 

 brighter yellow : upper tail-coverts olive-yellow : tail-feathers light 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow along the outer webs : forehead, 

 eyebrow, and sides of face rufous fawn-colour, the hinder part of 

 the crown and nape pale fawn-colour, the lateral feathers being 

 tipped with black, so as to form a double band down the crown ; 

 throat whitish ; breast and sides of body pale olive-yellow, the 

 centre of the body and abdomen white ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 olive-yellow : under wing-coverts and edge of the wing olive-yellow ; 

 axillaries whitt\ washed with yellow; quills dull brown" below, 

 ochraceous along the edge of the inner web ; " rictal bristles strong, 

 black, nearly half as long as the bill*, and the hind toe and claw 



* The Museum specimens are damaged, but the riotal bristles appear to mo 

 to be fully as long as the bill itself. 



