458 MFsciCAPiDJi:. 



Adult female. General colour above dull olivaceous, the head and 

 nape greyer ; sides of head, cheeks, and ear-coverts ashy grey, with 

 lio-hter shaft-lines to the ear-coverts ; lores dull white ; feathers 

 round the eye huffy whitish ; wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, 

 edo-ed with the same colour as the back, rather more fulvescent on 

 the greater coverts and quills : tail dull brown, externally pale 

 rufous ; under surface of body white, the fore neck, breast, and 

 sides of body ashy fulvous : under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 the edge of the wiug olivaceous brown. Total length 5-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Northern Tenasserim provinces, Java, Eorneo. 



a, h. 5 ad. sk. East Java. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Sarawak, Borneo. Henry Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



67. DIGENEA. ,„ 



Digvnea, Hodgsoii, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 20 D. leucomelanura. 



Autliipes, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 122 (1847). . D. moniliger. 



Foot of Digenea nioniliger. 



Bmnje. Himalaya Mountains, Burmese countries to Tenasserim, 

 Sumatra. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Above grey, with a bright blue eyebrow and 



forehead. 



a'. Below greyish white leucomelanura c? , p. 459. 



h'. Below fawn-colour cerviniventris cS , p. 460. 



b. Above rufous or olive-brovra. 



e'. With no white gorget, the throat being 



pale yellowish buiF leucomelanura J , p. 459. 



d'. With a distinct white gorget, surrounded 



by a line of black. 

 a". Ear-coverts and sides of face olive. . . . moniliger, p. 460. 

 . h". Ear-coverts and sides of face rufous. 



a'". Forehead pale orange-buff suhmonUiger, p. 461. 



b'". Forehead rufous solitaria, p. 46] . 



throat, upper breast, abdomen, vent, lower tail-coverts, wing-lining, and axil- 

 laries pure white ; a broad greyish olivaceous pectoral band ; sides tinged with 

 the same colour. Length 6'25 inches, tail 2"9, wing 31, bill from forehead 

 straight to point O'T, tarsus 0'65. {Hume.) 

 Hab. Malacca. 



