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kind (M. conereta Mull.) was obtained by me on the Sibau 

 River (Upper Kapuas). All our five Bornean specimens 

 have the frontal shaft-streaks less fulvous though not less 

 distinct than the Indian specimens of this species, but the 

 lower surface is much less rufescent. The two smaller 

 specimens can hardly be distinguished from the Javan 

 M. sepiaria (Horsf.) except by the pale frontal shaft-streaks, 

 but I think it advisable to unite them with M. Ahhotti 

 rather than with M. sepiaria. 



2. Malacocincla sepiaria. 



Brachypteryx sepiaria Horsf. Trans. Lion. Soc. XIII, p. 158 (1822); 



Gray, Gen. B. I , p. 209 (1846); id. Handl. B. I, p. 312 (1869). 

 Alcippe sepiaria Blyth , Journ. As. Soc. Beng, XIII, p. 384 (1844); 



Bp. Consp. I, p. 260. 

 Myiothera pyca Boie, MS. in Mus. Lugd. (partim). 

 Turdirostris pyca Bp. Consp. I, p. 218 (1850). 

 Bessethera pyca (Boie) Cab. Miis. Hein. I, p. 76 (1850). 

 Nannothera sepiaria Sundev. Tentamen, p. 11 (1872). 

 Trichostoma pyca Nicholson, Ibis 1879, p. 168. 

 Turdinus sepiarius Sharpe , Cat. B. VII, p. 544 (1888); Meyer, Zeit- 



schr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 210. 



Hab. Java. 



Eight specimens in the Leyden Museum, amongst which 

 the three types to the MS. -name Myiothera pyca Boie. 



This species is distinguished by its respectively smaller 

 size, its shorter and rather stout bill, the rather distinct 

 ashy gray eyebrow , the faint ashy tinge on the olive- 

 brown crown, the very faint and rather gray shaft-streaks 

 to the feathers of the forehead , and by a broad centre 

 on breast and abdomen being pure white, leaving only 

 the flanks and under tail-coverts more or less fulvous. 



3. Malacocincla minor. 



Myiothera pyca (part.) Boie MS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 (?) Turdinus sepiarius (part.) Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 544 (1883). 

 Turdinus sepiarius var. nmior Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 210. 

 Notes from the Leyden IMuseiim, Vol. XVII. 



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