72 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



diagnosis of his genus Ptilopyga , I do not see any reason 

 why not to maintain it for the resting second species, 

 which is geuerically distinct from Cacopitta (Turdinus) as 

 well as from Malacocinda. 



The genus, in its present restricted sense, may be cha- 

 racterized as follows : Closely allied to the genera Turdinus 

 and PtilocicMa , but much smaller and short- tailed , the 

 tail being but little longer than the tarsus ; bill slender 

 as in the two preceding genera , not higher than broad 

 at the nostrils , nasal aperture placed in front of the nostril. 

 Upper surface unstriped, under surface blackish with very 

 large white centres to the feathers. — One species known. 



Range. Borneo. 



1. Ptilopyga leucogrammica. 



Myiothera leucogrammica Temm. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 



Cacopitta leucogrammica Bp. Consp. I, p. 257 (1850). 



Turdinus leucogrammicus Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 217 (1874); Sharpe, 

 Ibis 1877, p. 11. 



Ptilopyga leucogrammica Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 586 (1883); Everett, 

 Journ. Straits Branch R. As. Soc. 1889, p. 110; Hose, Ibis 1893, 

 p. 388; Sharpe, Ibis 1893, p. 548; id. Ibis 1894, p. 543. 



Hab. Borneo: Pontianak (Diard) ; Sarawak (Beccari, 

 Everett, Ch. Hose). 



The typical specimen from Pontianak (Diard) in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



Genus JJaniotwrdinws , n. g. 



Type: Corythocichla crassa Sharpe, Ibis 1888, p. 391. 



Plumage of the Turdinus-^rou^, as characterized antea 

 in the key to the genera under lett. A ; tail once and a 

 half the length of the tarsus , tarsi and toes long, reaching 

 beyond the tip of tail when outstretched , bill very robust, 

 compressed, higher than broad at nostrils and respectively 

 short, remembering that of Malacocinda rujiventris rather 

 than the slender bill of the Twrc^mus-group, nasal aperture 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII. 



