AND ALLIED GENERA. 83 



Hab. Borneo. 



The Leydeu Museum contains tlie three typical specimens 

 of M. hypoides Temm. (MS.), one of which collected by 

 Schwaner on the Karau River, the two others by Diard 

 near Pontianak , besides a fine series obtained by myself on 

 the Liang Koeboeng Mountain. 



This fine species is sufficiently characterized by the ashy 

 gray crown and lighter gray sides of the head, the more 

 or less distinct gray shaft-streaks on lower throat and 

 chest and by the bright tawny buS flanks, thighs, vent 

 and under tail-coverts. On account of its size and espe- 

 cially the short and stout bill it is more closely allied to 

 M. sepiaria and minor than to Abbotti. 



5. Malacocincla perspicillata. 



Myioihera perspicillata Temm. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Cacopitta perspicillata Bp. Consp. I, p. 257 (1850). 

 Macronus perspicillatus Gray, Handl. B. I, p. .318 (1869). 

 Turdinus perspicillatus Sharpe , Cat. B. VII, p. 540 (1883); id. 

 N. L. M. 1884, p. 171. 



Hab. Borneo. 



The typical and as it seems hitherto unique specimen 

 is in the Leyden Museum. 



This species , the largest of the genus , is easily distin- 

 guished from all its congeners by the black forehead, 

 continued by a rather broad black superciliary streak and 

 a black spot before the eye, further by the conspicuous 

 white lores and the white shaft-streaks on the ashy gray 

 lower throat and chest. These peculiarities , together with 

 the slight black edgings to the feathers of the crown and 

 with the rather long wings, would show some relationship 

 to the genus Turdinus^ but the short tail and its propor- 

 tion to the tarsi can leave no doubt as to its real posi- 

 tion. Gray has mentioned as the habitat of this species 

 Java and Sumatra, and Sharpe (Cat. Birds) Java, while 

 the bird has been collected by Schwaner in Borneo. 



Notes from th.e Lieyden JMuseuin, Vol. XVII. 



