MS. "Illustrations of Indian Ornithology." 353 



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ferruffineus, adult and young, Muscicapula superciliaris, stro-^ 

 phiata, and sapphira, adult and young, and a Tenasserim ex- 

 ample of Erythrosterna maculata are well figured ; while the 

 plate of Eumyias melanops, taken from Akyab individuals, 

 appears to be referable to Cyornis unicolor. The young, in 

 mottled plumage, and the adult male and female of Cyoi-nis 

 rubeculoides are represented on one plate, and figured from 

 Tenasserim examples. All three species of Niltava are well 

 delineated ; and N. macgregorice 6 , in the young plumage, is 

 introduced. 



Volume vi. contains Part 2 of the Dentirostres, and is con- 

 fined to the Merulidce, which family is made to comprise the 

 Wrens, Pittas, Thrushes, and some of the Timeliine genera. 

 It contains thirty plates, with figures of thirty-six species. 

 Pnoepyga squamata and P. caudata are prettily figured on 

 one plate; the first species with the throat and breast rufous. 

 In the letterpress no fresh light is thrown on the question of 

 the perplexing changes of colour found in this species. Ri- 

 mator malacoptilus is depicted running with long strides along 

 the ground, and Zoothera marginata extracting worms from 

 a river-bank, as observed by Colonel Tickell in Tenasserim. 

 Turdus ruficoUis (two plates), T. atrigularis , T. rufulus, T. 

 mollissimus, T. dauma, and T. albicinctus are well figured. 



The first plate of the Timeliina represents, under the title 

 of Turdinus macrodactylus, the type of Turdinus crispifrons, 

 Blyth (J. A. S.B. xxiv. p. 269). It was shot near Moul- 

 mein. Colonel Tickell considers it to be identical with the 

 Malaccan form. The young bird is figured with the sides of 

 the head white. Trichastoma abboti, from near Moulmein, is 

 figured and described as distinct, with the title of Turdinus 

 insidiosus, and, on the same plate, a Tenasserian example of 

 Stachyris nigriceps. 



The next plate represents two little-known species — Turdi- 

 nus guttatm, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1859, p. 450), and Turdinus 

 brevicaiidatus , Blyth — both discovered by Colonel Tickell on 

 the Mooleyit range in Tenasserim. Examples of T. guttatus 

 I have never seen ; but, judging by the plate, it must be nearly 

 allied to, perhaps a representative form of, the Malaccan Ti- 



