AND ALLIED GENERA. 69 



Key to the species. 



a. Cliest and breast with broad white or pale ful- 

 vous shaft-streaks. 



a . Bill shorter, culmen utterly 2, 1 cm macrodactylus. 



h' , Bill longer, culmen at least 2, 4 cm. 



a' . Breast rufous rtifipedus. 



b". Breast gray in the centre, laterally dark 



fulvous lepidopleurus . 



h. No shaft-streaks on chest and breast. 



a. Throat black, chest and breast white or pale 



fulvous , each feather bordered with black . . atrigularis. 

 b'. Throat white, lower surface black, each feather 



bordered with white loricatus. 



1. Turdinus macrodactylus. 



Malacopteron macrodactyhim Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XIII, 



p. 417 (1844). 

 Turdinus macrodactylus Blyth , Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XIII , p. 382 



(1844); Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 548 (1883). 



H ab. Malacca. 



Three specimens, two labelled » Malacca", the third 

 from Wellesley (Dr. Hagen). 



2. Turdiniis rujipectus. 



Turdinus rufipectus Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. XIV, p. 224 

 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 549 (1883). 



Hab. Sumatra. 



3. Turdinus lepidopleurus. 



Myiothera lepidopleura Teram. MS. Mus. Lugd. 



Cacopilta lepidopleura Bp. (ex Temm. MS.) Consp. I, p. 257 (1850). 

 Turdinus lepidopleurus Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 539 (note); id. N. L. M. 

 1884, p. 170 1). 



Hab. Java. 



Five specimens , amongst which the two types (cf & $). 



1) Dr. Sharpe (I. c.) yields to the opinion that T. lepidopleurus ought to be 

 united to T. macrodactijlus. I believe, however, the distinctive characters 

 mentioned in the key sufficient to keep the two species separate. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XVII. 



