17-2 TURDINUS PERSPICnXATUS. 



sides of face and ear-coverts ashy grey, the latter with 

 distinct white shaft-streaks , the fore part of the cheeks 

 whiter; sides of neck ashy grey with a slight wash of 

 olive ; throat white ; fore-neck and breast ashy grey with 

 longitudinal white centres to the feathers ; abdomen , flanks , 

 thighs and under tail-coverts reddish brown with more or 

 less of an olive tinge, the abdomen somewhat washed with 

 grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries reddish brown ; 

 quills dark brown below , narrowly fringed with light red- 

 dish buff along the inner web. Total length 5.6 inches, 

 culmen 0.85, wing 3.35, tail 1.85, tarsus 1.05. 



Corythocichla epilepidota. 



Myiothera epilepidota, Temm. PI. Col. II, pi. 448, fig. 2 



(1827). 

 Macronus epilepidotus , Gray, Gen. B. I, p. 210 (1846); 



id. Handl. B. I, p. 319, no. 4774 (1869). 

 Turdirostris epilepidota , Bp. Consp. I, p. 218 (1850). 

 Myiothera murina , S. Mijll. Blyth , Ibis, 1865, p. 47 



(nee S. Mull.). 

 Brachypteryx epilepidota . Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 224 



(1874). 

 Turdinus epilepidotus, Sharpe , Cat. Birds, VII, p. 540, note 



(1883). 

 This species appears to be very closely allied to C. striata 

 and C. hrevicaudata , of which species I had unfortunately 

 no specimens by me for actual comparison. From the 

 descriptions, however, I gather that the following charac- 

 ters must be added to the ))Key to the Species" (p. 592): 

 c. Throat white ; under surface of body rufescent , broadly 



streaked with white epilepidota. 



The following is a description of the original specimens 

 in the Ley den Museum. 



Adult male. (Sumatra: Type of species). General colour 

 above fulvous brown , mottled with black margins to the 

 feathers , which have also a distinct shaft-streak of fulvous 

 on the mantle and back ; wing-coverts reddish brown , 



Islotes from the Ley den IMuseum, Vol. "VI. 



