216 pnAsiANiB.T;. 



the scapulars is paler olive-brown, with a wide terminal black bar. 

 Primaries and their coverts brownish black ; secondaries, their 

 coverts, and some of the outer median coverts the same, but mar- 

 gined on the outer web with pale olive- or rutous-brown. Chest 

 olive-brown, interspersed with similar white shaft-plumes to those 

 of the crown and tliroat, and giving this part an irregular spotted 

 appearance. Upper breast and sides of lower breast and belly- 

 white, with a large round black spot near the extremity of each 

 feather ; middle of lower breast and belly white ; sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts black, with narrow wide-set white bars ; thighs 

 olive-brown, fringed with white. Tail olive-brown, barred and 

 mottled with black. Iris brown ; bill coral-red ; legs and feet reddish 

 brown. Total length 9-6 inches, wing 5-2, tail 1"7, tarsus 1*75. 



Adult female. Difiers only in having rather more white about 

 the lores and chin. Total length 8-6 inches, wing 4*9, tail 1"6, 

 tarsus 1-6. 



Hah. Mountains of Sumatra. 



a, 6. d' ? ad. sk. Lolo, Sumatra, Dec. {Carl Bork). Tweeddale Coll. 



1 1 . Arboricola brunneopectus. 



Arboricola brunneopectus, Tick., Bli/th, J. As. Soc. Beng. xxiv. p. 276 

 (1855) [Tenasserim Mts., 3000- 5000 ft.] ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 482 

 (1874) ; Hume S^ Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 443 (1878) [Kyouk-nyat, 

 Mooleyit]; Hmne, Str. F. viii. p. Ill (1879); Hu7ne ^- Marsh. 

 Game B. ii. p. 87, pi. (1879) fTonghoo, Karen, and E. slopes of 

 Pegu Hills]; Binqham. Str. F. ix. p. 195 (1880) [East of Dawna 

 Ranfre] ; Dates, Sir. F. x. p. 236 (1882) [Pegu] ; Grant, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 397. 



Arboricola brunneipectus, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 159; id. Sf Walden, 

 Cat. Mamm. ^ B. Burm. p. 150 (1875) ; Oafes, Birds Burma/), 

 ii. p. 325 (1883). 



Arborophila brunneopectus, Hujne, Str. F.ii. p. 449 (1874), iii. p. 174 

 (1875j. 



Arborophila brunneipectus, IJ'ald. Ibis, 1875, p. 459. 



Adult male and female. Forehead, lores, and wide superciliary^ 

 stripes, which are continued backwards down the sides of the neck, 

 buff; top of the head either olive-brown tip])ed with black, or black 

 barred with brown towards the base * ; middle of the back and sides 

 of the neck black ; feathers round the base of the neck buff- olive, 

 with a black triangular spot at the extremity of each ; back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts olive-brown, fringed and barred with black ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts and scapulars a mixture of reddish 

 chestnut and pale olive, fringed at the extremity and often mottled 

 more or less with black ; many of the median wing-coverts with a 

 large black patch in the middle, reaching from the base nearly to the 

 extremity of the feathers, and most of the scapulars with a large 



* The same peculiarly shaped feathers, with naked shafts and only a tuft of 

 Tanes at their extremity, already mentioned in the description oi A. rwhrirosfris, 

 are found in nnniherg among the featliers on the fop of the head in this species, 

 but owing to their bring black are less conspicuous. 



