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a. Cliin ashy or white , etc. 



a'. Under surface etc ^ y V ' 



I larvata. 



[ poliocephala. 



h'. Under surface etc. ..... \ guttata. 



striolata. 



c' , Under surface white; sides of body grey, like the 

 ear-coverts grammiceps. 



Stachyris striolata. 



Timalia striolata, S. Mull. Tijdschr. 1838, p. 32. — Bp. 



Consp. I, p. 217 (1850). — Gray, Handl. B. I, p. 315, 



no. 4699 (1809). 

 Stachyris poliocephala, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, VII, p. 534, 



pt. (errore). 

 Following Gray, I united the Timalia striolata of Muller 

 to T. poliocephala of Temminck. I find, on examining 

 the types, that I was quite wrong in this identification , for 

 1. striolata is a very distinct species , and is in fact so 

 closely allied to Stachyris guttata, as to be almost inse- 

 parable from it. I had unfortunately no specimen at hand 

 of the latter species wherewith to compare the types of 

 T. striolata, but on comparing them with the descriptions 

 given in the » Catalogue of Birds" (vol. VII, p. 535) I 

 believe that the ground-colour of the two species is diife- 

 rent, as the Sumatran bird could not be described as ))ru- 

 fescent-brown " above. On the contrary the colour is dark 

 sooty brown and the ovate white spots are confined to the 

 hind neck and sides of neck. 



The measurements are as follows: 



Total length, culmen. wing. tail. taraus. 



«. d". Sumatra (S. Muller). 5.7 0.75 2.7 2.2 1.0 

 b.^. y> )) » . 5.8 0.7 2.65 2.4 1.0 



Stachyris grammiceps. 

 Myiothera grammiceps, Temm. PI. Col. 448, fig. 3 (1828). 

 Timalia grammicephala , Bp. Consp. I, p. 217 (1850). 

 Gray, Handl. B. I, 315. no. 4628 (1869). 



T^otes from the Leyden ]Mu.seuixi, Vol. "VI. 



