collected in South-eastern Sumatra. 61 



This is an interesting species^ allied, as Count Salvador! 

 has pointed out, to A. cyanea, Horsf., of Java, but to my 

 mind much more distinct than his description would imply. 

 In A. cyanea the whole upper surface is blue, brighter on the 

 forehead; whereas in A. melanura the crown is black, and 

 the dorsal feathers are black margined with blue, the rump 

 again being black ; underneath, too, the general colour 

 is black, with blue-margined feathers on the throat and 

 breast. 



48. Garrulax palliatus, S. Miill. ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. 

 p. 282, no. 4162. 



Garrulax frenatus, Salvad. t. cit. p. 230. 



Nos. 334 & 341, ?. Tarratas. Irides dark grey; bill, 

 legs, and feet black. 



Count Salvadori has suggested the name of G. frenatus, if 

 it should turn out that Bonaparte^s G. palliatus should prove 

 to be different from the bird collected by Dr. Beccari in 

 Mount Singalan, Bonaparte has omitted to mention the 

 black streak under the eye ; but this is so little pronounced 

 in some specimens that I do not think for a moment that 

 there is more than one species. 



49. Ianthocincla mitrata (S. Miill.) . 



Garrulax mitratus, Gray. Hand-1. B. i. p. 282, no. 4173. 

 Leiothrix mitrata, Salvad. t. cit. p. 230. 

 No. 335, $ . Tarratas. Irides dark brown; legs and 

 feet yellow. 



50. Malacopteron magnum, Eyton; Salvad. Ucc. di Born, 

 p. 226. 



No. 329, ? . Penang goenyan, Lampong. Irides reddish 

 brown ; upper mandible black, the tip brown ; lower mandible 

 pale flesh-colour. 



51. Prinia familiaris, Horsf. ; Tweedd. /. cit. p. 311; 

 Salvad. t. cit. p. 235. 



No. 331, ? . Tarratas. Irides dark brown ; upper man- 

 dible black, the lower one light yellow, black at tip ; legs and 

 feet flesh-colour. 



