178 CYANODERMA. 



»Key to the Species" is necessary, as it is evident that 

 C. melanothorax , by reason of its pectoral band , is closely 

 allied to C. poliogaster of Hume. I propose the following 

 re-adjustment: 



a. With no pectoral band .... erythropterum etc. 



b. With a pectoral band. 



x'. Band on breast black ; sides of body and abdomen 

 pale fulvous brown poliopse. 



(3'. Band on breast pale olive-brown ; sides of body and 

 abdomen grey poliogaster. 



Genus Alcippe (Sharpe, 1. c. p. 618). 



Alcippe pyrrhoptera. 



Napothera pyrrhoptera , Bp. Consp. I, p. 358 (1850, ex 

 Boie MSS. in Mus. Lugd.). 



Macronas pyrrhopterus ^ Grray, Handl. B. I, p. 318, 

 no. 4768 (1869). 



A large series of this bird and an allied species named 

 in the Museum Napothera phaionota (Kuhl) are in the col- 

 lection at Leyden. The last-named species is identical with 

 Alcippe cinerea, Blyth (Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 622), but 

 I cannot find that Boie's name was ever published. 



A. pyrrhoptera appears to me to be a distinct species, 

 closely allied to A. phayrii , having the ear-coverts similar 

 to the under surface of the body in colour. It differs, 

 however , in having the head rufescent like the back and 

 the external aspect of the wings, tail and upper tail- 

 coverts rufous. 



Notes from the Leytlen MLuseuni, "Vol. "VI. 



