AND ALLIED GENERA. 



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rather linear aud placed near the front at the bottom of 

 the membrane. Considerably larger than Turdinulus and 

 aud Corythocichla^weLntmg their clear triangular spots on wing- 

 coverts and secondaries ; feathers on lower back and upper 

 tail-coverts with indications of fulvous shaft-streaks , which 

 character remembers the genus Ptilocichla. — One species. 

 Range. Borneo. 



1. Lanioturdinus crassus. 



CorythocicMa crassa Sharpe, Ibia 1888, p. 391; id. id. 1889, p. 418; 

 Everett, Journ. Straits Branch R. As. Soc. 1889, p. 110. 



H a b. Borneo. Hitherto only found on Mount Kina Balu 

 at an elevation of 7000—10000 feet. 



Two males , obtained from Mr. Whitehead , in the Ley- 

 den Museum. 



Genus Vurdinwlws. 



Type. 

 Turdinulus Hume, Str. F. VI, p. 235 (1878). . . T. Roberti. 

 CorythocicMa Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 592 (1883) . C. hrevicaudata. 



Although 1 have not seen any specimen of Turdinulus 

 Roherti nor of CorythocicMa hrevicaudata , I feel quite sure 

 that the genus CorythocicMa ought to be suppressed and 

 its species brought under the genus Turdinulus. When 

 creating the genus CorythocicMa , Sharpe failed to give a 

 description of it, but from the key to the genera of the 

 Timeliae, p. 507 of the above mentioned Catalogue, we 

 learn that in CorythocicMa , which , together with Turdinulus , 

 is placed in the short-tailed group, the tail is longer, sur- 

 passing the long plumes of the rump, while the tail of 

 Turdinulus is said to be »so short as to be hidden by the 

 plumes of the rump" *). 



I) This character is mentioned by Godw. Austen & Walden in the original 

 description of Fnoepyga Roberti in Ibis 1875, p. 252, and thence adopted by 

 Sharpe in his above cited key to the genera. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseuir» , Vol. XVU. 



