2 Mr. Blyth's Commentary 



pterum olivaceum, Strickland, and probably with the Myiothera 

 grisea of Miiller, in the Derby Museum at Liverpool, from Malacca 

 and Java, and for which I formerly mistook a species of Alcippe 

 received from Java, mentioned by Dr. Jerdon (vol. ii. p. 19) 

 as Brachypteryx sepiaria of Horsfield. This Javan Alcippe re- 

 sembles A. nipalensis, but has a general rufous tinge, with the 

 sincipital lines ferruginous. 



388. Alcippe nipalensis. 



Mr. Hodgson figures a deeply formed nest, with reddish- 

 white eggs, speckled with deep ferruginous, the spots clustered 

 at the large end, as belonging to this species. Mr. Layard 

 describes that of the Cinghalese A. nigrifrons (which is akin 

 to A. atriceps) as " built in a low thorny bush, and composed 

 of grasses woven together in a dome, with the entrance near the 

 lop ; eggs white, slightly freckled with pink spots " (Ann. Mag. 

 N. H. 1853, xi. 397) *. 



391. Stachyrhis nigriceps. 



Inhabits the mountains of Tenasserim as well as the localities 

 mentioned by Dr. Jerdon. 



392. Stachyrhis pyrrhops, Hodgs.; Gould, B. As. pt. xv. pi. 

 According to Mr. Gould, this species, and not S. chrysea, is 



the bird which Dr. A. Leith Adams obtained in Kashmir (P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 184). The egg, as figured by Mr. Hodgson, is 

 whitish, a little speckled. That of S. chrysea is pinkish-white, 

 and the nest domed and placed on the summit of a sedge. S. 

 prcpcognitus lays a blue egg (Ibis, 1866, p. 309). 



393. Stachyrhis ruficeps. 



The Timalia pileata of McClelland from Asam (P. Z. S. 1839, 

 p. 160) is this bird, though the true T. pileata is likewise an 

 inhabitant of the Brahmaputra valley. 



* To the species of Turdinus noticed in ' The Ibis ' for 1865 (p. 47) add 

 Myiothera epilepidota, Teram. (PI. Col. 448. fig. 2), from Sumatra and Java. 

 iVajoo/Aera,Temm., yields to Myiolestes, Miiller (Comptes Rendus, 1854, 

 xxxviii. p. 54). Trichosfoma umbratile (Temm.) and T. celebense, Strick- 

 land (Contrib. Orn. 1849, pp. 126, 127, pi- xxxv.), approach T. abhotti and 

 T. sepiarium. The former only difters from T. abbotti in having " more 

 rufous wings and flanks, and less greyish-white on the lores" (Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215). 



