82 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



Hab. Java and Sumatra. 



A male from Java (Kuhl & van Hasselt) and a female 

 from Sumatra in the Leyden Museum. 



Together with those of the preceding species , these two 

 specimens bear the MS. -name Myiothera pyca Boie. They 

 are exactly alike one another , but differ from M. sepiaria 

 in having crown and nape dark ashy brown instead of 

 olive-brown, the back more rufous brown instead of olive- 

 brown , and the hinder part of the lower surface, especially 

 vent and under tail-coverts, rich tawny brown. Dr. Meyer 

 was so kind as to send me one of his T. sepiarius with 

 which he compared the dark-headed form, and therefrom 

 I conclude that the two above mentioned birds are iden- 

 tical with his var. minor. Dr. Meyer has found some dif- 

 ferences in the measurements , especially in the length of 

 the tail , but amongst our specimens of M. sepiaria there 

 are several which do not differ in this respect from the 

 dark-headed new species, so that this latter, therefore, is 

 solely based upon some differences in the coloration. 



The short diagnosis of Brachypteryx sepiaria , as given 

 by Horsfield, does not mention any difference in color be- 

 tween the crown and the rest of the upper surface and 

 consequently must be referred upon the pale-headed form , 

 but the comparative description , given by Sharpe in his 

 Catalogue — »head dusky ashy brown contrasting with 

 the back" — seems to be referable to the dark-capped 

 M, minor. 



4. Malacocincla rujiventris. 



Myiothera hypoides Temm. MS. ia Mus. Lugd. 

 Turdirostris concreta (part.) Bp, Consp. I , p. 218. 

 Malacocincla rufiveniris Salvad. Ucc. Born, p. 229 (1874). 

 Ptilopyga rufiventris Sharpe, Cat. B. VIT, p. 585 (1883); Everett, 



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



1893, p. 388. 

 Turdinus tephrops Sharpe, Bull. Br. Orn. Club, N° 10, p. 54 



(1893); id. Ibis 1893, p. 549. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII. 



