Mr. H. J. Elwes on the Genus Henicurus. 259 



pied Henicurus; the chief peculiarity of his H. sinensis being the 

 less extent of white on the forehead. 



" I have three specimens from Foochow varying a good deal 

 in the expansion of this white. I carefully compared my skins 

 with those in the E. I. Museum of true H. speciosus (Horsf.), 

 and, though anxious to find a difi'erence, could discover none. I 

 suspect that the greater or less extent of frontal white is a sexual 

 difference/' In P. Z. S. 1863, p. 276, Mr. Swinhoe says of this 

 bird : — " Never procured by me in China, except on the hills 

 round Foochow, where I have procured it both in winter and 

 summer. My specimens from that locality correspond entirely 

 with Javan skins," 



Horsfield says of H. leschenaulti, in his Zoological Researches 

 in Java, " It is very locally distributed, and uniformly deserts 

 the neighbourhood of populous villages. It is almost entirely 

 confined to the southern coast of Java, which abounds in small 

 streams descending rapidly from the hills and shaded by luxu- 

 riant shrubs. Here I first discovered this bird in the year 1809. 

 I afterwards met with it again in the district of Karano:-bollon£r, 

 and in the provinces south of Kediri. In more central situa- 

 ations, it frequents the banks of an elevated lake near the de- 

 clivities of the mountain Prahu, where I found it more nume- 

 rous than in any other part of Java." 



7. Henicurus frontalis. (Plate IX.) 



E. frontalis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 156 ; Cat. Birds in Mus. 

 A. S. p. 159; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Birds in Mus. E. I. Comp. 

 i. p. 346; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 251. 



Hab. Malacca {Cantor, Maingay, Linstedt). 



Plumage hke that of H. leschenaulti. Breast black; belly, 

 bar on wings, crown, and forehead white, the feathers of the head 

 elongated like those of H. leschenaulti. Length about 8 inches 

 wing 3|, tarsus \\, tail 3| to 4, bill from gape ff, culmen \^. 



This species, which in its size and proportions strongly re- 

 sembles H. ruficapillus, is in plumage similar to H. lesche- 

 naulti. It appears to be rare, and has only been found, so far 

 as I am aware, in the Malay peninsula. The Plate is taken from 

 a Malacca specimen kindly lent to me by Mr. Wallace. 



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