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the median and greater series tipped with triangular white 

 spots , forming a double wing-bar ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dark brown , externally reddish brown ; lower back , 

 rump and upper tail-coverts uniform reddish brown ; tail- 

 feathers dull reddish brown with indistinct dusky cross-bars 

 under certain lights; head rather more dusky brown than 

 the back , mottled with black margins to the feathers ; 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow white, extending to the sides 

 of the nape , the superciliary streak somewhat mottled with 

 dusky margins; feathers in front of the eye dusky; sides 

 of face and cheeks dull white with dusky margins, forming 

 an indistinct moustache; ear-coverts ashy grey with whi- 

 tish shaft-lines, the upper margin blackish, forming a 

 broad streak below the superciliary line; throat white, 

 with faint remains of dusky margins; remainder of under 

 surface of body broadly streaked ; the breast and sides of 

 body light reddish brown with longitudinal white centres 

 to the feathers, less distinct on the flanks, which appear 

 uniform ; centre of breast and abdomen more broadly stri- 

 ped, the feathers being white with pale reddish margins; 

 under tail-coverts pale reddish brown; under wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, slightly edged with reddish brown; quills 

 dusky brown below, paler along the inner web. Total 

 length 4.2 inches, culmen 0.6, wing 2.05, tail 1.25, tar- 

 sus 0.9 [Mus. Lugd.). 



Young female (Java). More reddish than the male des- 

 cribed, the white tips to the wing-coverts smaller and 

 slightly tinged with fulvous; eye-streak also less pronoun- 

 ced and tinged with fulvous; under surface of body more 

 rufous than in the male , the throat whitish , washed with 

 pale rufous on the chin. Total length 4.5 inches, culmen 

 0.7, wing 2.05, tail 1.4, tarsus 0.95 {Mus. Lugd.). 



It will be seen that I have added as a synonym Myio- 

 thera murina, S. Mull, apud Blyth , Ibis, 1865, p. 47. 

 Mr. Hume suppressed the name of Turdinulus roberti (Godw. 

 Aust. and Wald.) and added it as a synonym of T. muri- 

 nus (S. Mull.). Both Mr. Eugene Oates and myself follow- 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMCuseum , Vol. VI. 



