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like undoubtedly Captaiu Legge (Birds of Ceylon, p. 375) 

 did, as he says in his short diagnose of H. o^scwrws: » the 

 upper tail-coverts white." It would really be a very peculiar 

 fact, if in about the same locality two so closely allied 

 species would be found. 



Another specimen from the same locality, presented by 

 Mr. van Hasselt in 1880 was already in our Museum. It 

 differs from Dr. Klaesi's specimen only in having the four 

 exterior pairs of tail-feathers tipped with white , instead 

 of five. 



unless the questions about the identity of H. picatus 

 with H. capitalis be settled , I consider both our speci- 

 mens in question to belong to Count Salvadori's H. inter- 

 medius. It is however quite possible that all three so very 

 closely allied forms with the white wing-markings once 

 will turn out to belong to one and the same species, 

 which will have to bear the name Hemipus picatus. 



98. Tephr odor nis gularis. 



Lanius gularis, Raffl. t. c. p. 304. 



Tephrodornis gularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. XV. p. 304; — ? Salvad. 



Ucc. di Borneo, p. 156 (1874) (partim); — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Br. Mus. Vol. III. p. 278 (1877). 



3 specimens (2 ad. cfi 1 9)- 



Adultmale:» Iris chrome-yellow, bill black, feet brown." 

 Female: »Iris sulphur-yellow, bill horn-brown, feet gray." 



As Mr. Sharpe (1. c.) has already pointed out, the Su- 

 matran and Malaccan birds are specifically distinct from 

 those from Java [virgatus Temm.) by their larger size, and 

 by the grayish brown color being much darker and reaching 

 up to the chin, leaving the moustaches pure white, and 

 also by the tail-coverts and tail-feathers in adult specimens 

 being edged with gray instead of being entirely black. 



In our three specimens from Borneo , amongst which 

 only one fully adult male , the bill is considerably larger 

 and stouter than in those from Sumatra. In the adult 



Notes from the Leyden JMuseum , "Vol. IX. 



