174 CORYTHOCrCHLA EPILEPIDOTA. 



ed Mr. Hume in this identification , as it seemed to me 

 that Blyth's description , though short , suited Turdinulus ro- 

 herti very aptly, and at the same time it was possible for 

 a bird to be of the same species on the mountains of 

 Tenasserim and Sumatra. But I now believe that we were all 

 wrong and the name of Turdinulus roberti must be resto- 

 red to the Tenasserim species. 



When at Leyden I diligently searched for the specimen of 

 Myiothera murina referred to by Mr. Blyth , and my friend 

 Dr. Jentink assisted me in the search , but we found no 

 species bearing the name that would answer to Mr. Blyth's 

 descriptions. A Myiothera murina of Muller we found, it 

 is true , but it was the Brachypteryx murina (S. Mull.) of 

 all authors , and the Crateroscelis murina of my volume 

 (Cat. B. VII, p. 590). 



The only specimens which at all answer to the descrip- 

 tion given by Mr. Blyth are those of C. epilepidota , which 

 also does come from Sumatra, as stated by him, while 

 the true Myiothera tnurina , S. Mull, certainly does not. 

 There is no specimen of Turdinulus roberti at all in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



In fact the whole of Blyth's paper is somewhat confused, 

 and it is difficult even to find out whether he is writing about 

 birds at Leyden or in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. I 

 believe that T'urdinus epilepidotus was the species which 

 he intended to write about, and that he affixed the name 

 of Myiothera murina from memory. 



Malacopterum lepidocephalum (Gray) , Sharpe, 

 1. c. p. 567. 



The slight differences between Javan and Sumatran exam- 

 ples noticed by me (1. c.) are not confirmed by the se- 

 ries in the Leyden Museum. 



Malacopterum erythrote, Sharpe, 1. c. p. 568. 

 Without actually comparing specimens, I have no doubt 



Notes from tlie 1-ieydLen ]Miiseum, "Vol. VX. 



