TURDINUS LEPIDOPLEURUS. 171 



The Leyden Museum very kindly exchanged an example 

 of this Javan species with me, and I was able to compare 

 it with T. macrodactyhcs from Malacca. I am of opinion 

 that it should be specifically united to the latter, as the 

 only difference which I can see is in the somewhat more 

 chestnut tinge of the upper tail-coverts and tail. 



Turdinus perspicillatus. 



Cacopitta perspicillata , Bp. Consp. I, p. 257 (1850, 



ex Temm. MSS. in Mus. Lugd.). 

 Macronus perspicillatus , Gray, Handl. B. I, p. 540 (1809). 

 Turdinus perspicillatus ^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds, VII, p. 540, 



note. 

 Considered by me in the » Catalogue" to be a doubtful 

 species, but I find from an examination of the type that 

 it is perfectly distinct. It comes nearest to T. fulvescens 

 and the „Key to the Species" on p. 540 will require mo- 

 dification as follows: 



c*. Ear-coverts light brown .... sepiarius. 

 d^. Ear-coverts ashy grey. 



c^. A black eyebrow; lores white; a black spot 



in front of the eye .... perspicillatus. 

 d^. No black eyebrow ; no black spot in front of 

 the eye; lores ashy whitish . fulvescens. 

 Adult mcde. (Type of species). General colour above dark 

 olive-brown , the breast and median wing-coverts like the 

 back, the greater series, bastard-wing , primary- coverts 

 and quills dark brown , externally reddish brown , especi- 

 ally the latter which appear more reddish brown than the 

 back ; upper tail-coverts more rufous brown than the back ; 

 tail dark reddish brown , externally rufous brown ; head 

 and hind-neck more dingy olive-brown than the back , the 

 feathers of the crown with obsolete dusky margins ; base 

 of forehead blackish, extending in a line along the sides 

 of the crown , so as to form a tolerably distinct eyebrow ; 

 lores conspicuously white ; in front of eye a black spot ; 

 eyeKd white before and behind , dusky above and below ; 



Notes froiTi tlie Leyclen ^Museum , "Vol. VI. 



