450 Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on a 



23. Stachyris poliocephala, Temm. ; Sharpe, Cat. B, 

 Brit. Mus. vii. p. 534. 



An adult male from Kina Balu agrees with others from 

 Malacca. 



24. TURDINUS CANICAPILLUS, Sp. n. 



Adult female. General colour above dull tawny brown, the 

 mantle and upper back with distinct paler shaft-lines ; lesser 

 and median coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky 

 brown, externally chestnut ; bastard wing and primary-coverts 

 tawny brown, internally dusky; quills blackish, externally 

 chestnut, lighter and more tawny on the primaries ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers reddish brown, more 

 decidedly rufous on the margins ; crown of head dark ashy, 

 with a narrow whitish shaft-line to each feather, the shaft- 

 stripes on the forehead more fulvescent ; lores and an indis- 

 tinct eyebrow of ashy white, the feathers of the latter with 

 narrow white shaft-lines ; ear-coverts light tawny rufous, with 

 paler shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat white, with a few dusky 

 streaks on the fore neck, which is pale tawny ; breast and 

 abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks conspicuously 

 tawny rufous ; thighs also tawny rufous ; under tail-coverts 

 tawny rufous, white at the base; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light rufous ; quills below dusky, pale fulvous along 

 the inner edge. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 

 2"3, tail 2-05, tarsus 1. 



The male exactly resembles the female. 



This species is closely allied to T. sepiarius, but differs in 

 having a distinct eyebrow streaked with white, and more 

 especially in the colour of the breast and sides of the body, 

 which are bright tawny rufous. 



Fam. Henicurid^. 



25. Henicurus leschenaulti (V.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. vii. p. 313. 



Apparently identical with Javan specimens in the British 

 Museum. 



