170 STACHYRIS GRAMMICEPS. 



Adult male. (Type of species). General colour above 

 chestnut rufous from the hind neck to the upper tail- 

 coverts; wing-coverts like the back; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts ashy brown edged with rufous ; quills dus- 

 ky, externally like the back, the secondaries entirely 

 like the latter; tail-feathers dark brown edged with chest- 

 nut and barred with dusky under certain lights; head 

 and hind-neck dark slate-colour, rather more dusky on 

 the forehead and occiput , which are streaked with white , 

 the feathers having white margins; lores, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts and sides of neck slate-colour, the latter with 

 narrow white shaft-streaks ; cheeks , throat , breast , and 

 abdomen, pure white, the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts slaty-grey with white shaft-streaks, a 

 little more distinct on the latter; sides of the upper breast 

 also slaty-grey, somewhat mottled, the feathers adjoining 

 the breast being white , with slaty-grey edgings and tips ; 

 thighs brown ; under wing-coverts dark slaty-grey ; quills 

 dusky below , edged with fulvous along the inner web. 

 Total length 4.4 inches, culmen 0.55, wing 2.15, tail 1.65, 

 tarsus 0.75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but with 

 the under tail-coverts and feathers of the vent browner. 

 Total length 4.5 inches, culmen 0.55, wing 2.35, tail 1.7, 

 tarsus 0.8. 



Genus Twrdinus (Sbarpe , 1. c. p. 539). 



Turdinus lepidopleurus. 



Cacopitta lepidopleura , Bp. Consp. I, p. 257 (ex Temm. 



MSS. in Mus. Lugd.). 

 Macronus lepidopleurus^ Gray, Handl. B. I, p. 318, 



no. 3751 (1869). 

 Turdinus lepidopleurus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, VII, p. 539 , 



note (1883). 



Notes from tlie Leyden ]VIviseu.in , "Vol. "VI. 



