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in front of the nasal groove, which is covered by a mem- 

 brane, rictal bristles rather strong, but never reaching far 

 beyond the nostrils; wing rounded; tail short, not fully 

 two thirds of the length of wing ; tarsus and toes long , 

 especially the hind toe , tarsus fairly two thirds of the 

 length of tail and longer than one third of the length of 

 the wing. — Five species. 



Range. From British India through the Malay Penin- 

 sula down to Sumatra , Java and Borneo. 



Key to the species. 



a. No white shaft-streaks on the chest. 



a. Crown olive-brown like the back, or only a 

 trifle different. 

 a' . Forehead with conspicuous pale fulvous shaft- 

 streaks Ahhotti. 



h" . Pale shaft-streaks on forehead obsolete or 



entirely wanting sepiaria. 



b'. Crown strongly contrasting in color with the 

 back. 

 a". Crown dark grayish brown, ear-coverts olive 



brown minor. 



b". Crown and ear-coverts ashy gray .... rujiventris. 



b. Chest and breast ashy gray, with distinct white 

 shaft-streaks perspkillata. 



1. Malacocinda Ahhotti. 



Malacocincla Ahhotti Blyth, Journ. As. See. Bang. XIV, p. 601 



(1845); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 230 (1874). 

 Trichastoma Ahhotti Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bang. XVI, p. 462(1847); 



Bp. Consp. I, p. 259 (1850); Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 452, pi. 



XI, %. 2. 

 Malacopteron olivaceum Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. XIX, p. 



132 (1847). 

 Malacopteron Ahhotti Gray, Gen. B. Ill, App. p. 9 (1849). 

 Myiothera concreta Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Myiothera Schwaneri Temm. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Turdirostris concretus (part.) Bp. Consp. I, p. 218 (1850). 

 Trichastoma umhratile Sclat. (nee Strickl.) P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215'). 



1) Salvadori has with some reason referred Mr. Sclater's birds, which were 

 collected by Motley at Banjermasin, to his Malacocincla rujiventris, but the 



Notes from tbie Leyden Museum, "VoL XVII. 



