76 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



Turdinus epilepidutus Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 540, note (1883). 

 Corythocichla epilepidota Sharpe, N. L. M. 1884, p. 172. 



Hab. Sumatra and Java. 



The two typical specimens in the Leyden Museum. There 

 are some rather striking differences in size and coloration 

 between these two specimens, as is already plainly shown 

 by Sharpe in his interesting article on this species in the 

 N. L. M., differences which are not entirely due to the im- 

 mature stage of the Javan specimen , and the Javan bird 

 will, after all, very likely have to be specifically separated 

 from the Sumatran, as soon as more material will be at 

 hand for comparison. 



5. Turdinulus Roherti. 



Pnoepyga Roherti Godw. Aust. & Wald., Ibis 1875, p. 252; Hume 



Str. F. 1876, p. 218. 

 Turdinulus Roherti Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1878 (Vol. VI), p. 234. 

 Turdinulus murina Hume, Str. F. 1880, p. 115 (partim?) i). 

 Turdinulus murinus Oates, B. Brit. Burma, p. 62 (1883); Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Vlt, p. 593 (partim); Oates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 176(1889). 



This species , which is the type of the genus , is said 

 by Godwin Austen and Walden to have the short tail 

 completely concealed by the long and loose rump-plumes. 

 This character, first mentioned in the original description, 

 seems to be a peculiarity of this species only, but as it 

 is not confirmed by authors who had other specimens at 

 their disposal , I do not feel quite certain of its constancy. 



Hab. Manipur hills to Muleyit in Tenasserim. 



6. Turdinulus exsul. 



Turdinulus exsul Sharpe, Ibis 1888, p. 479; id. id. 1889, p. 418; 

 Everett, Journ. Straits Branch R. As. Soc. 1889, p. Ill; Sharpe, 

 Ibis 1890, pp. 279, 367; id. id. 1892, p. 433; Hose , Ibis 1893 , p. 

 388; Sharpe, Ibis 1893, pp. 547, 550; id. id, 1894, p. 543. 



1) It is not fally clear which species Hume meant when writing ahout his 

 T. murina, but as he speaks of the feathers on breast and abdomen being cen- 

 trally streaked with buffy white in some of his birds, I guess that his speci- 

 mens from Salangore (Malay Peninsula) may belong or at least be very closely 

 allied to the Sumatran T. epilepidofus . 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII. 



