84 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



Genus JLnuropsis. 



Type: Anuropsis malaccensis (Bartl.) Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 588 

 (1883). 



This genus belongs , together with Malacocincla , to the 

 short-tailed birds of the group with plain-colored plumage, 

 but differs from Malacocincla in having an obviously more 

 slender, less clumsy bill in which the nasal aperture is 

 linear and placed at the bottom of the membrane. Tail 

 about half the length of the wing or only a little longer 

 and about once and a half the length of the tarsus, which 

 is , together with the rather long toes and claws , pale 

 flesh-color in life and pale yellow in the skin. — Two 

 species known. 



Range. Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo and Philippine 

 Archipelago. 



Key to the species. 



a. Crown olive-brown or rufous, never gray . . . malaccensis. 

 h. Crown ashy gray cinereiceps. 



1. Anuropsis malaccensis. 



Myiothera poUogenis Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 



Brachijpteryx malaccensis Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 402. 



(?) Brachypteryx poiyogenys Strickl. Cootr. Ora. 1849, p. 93, pi. 31. 



Anuropsis malaccensis Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 588 (1883). 



Hab. Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo. 



The Leyden Museum contains two specimens (Myiothera 

 poUogenis Mull. MS.) from Sumatra , another only marked 

 Malaiasie, two specimens from Borneo, collected by Schwaner 

 on the Karau River, also named M. poUogenis Muller, two 

 specimens from Trusan (N. W. Borneo) and 1 3 specimens 

 collected by myself in Central Borneo. 



As is already stated by Sharpe in his Catalogue, this 

 species shows great variation in color, which seems not to 

 be fully understood as yet. Strange enough, there is not 

 the least difference in coloration amongst my own 13 

 Borneau specimens, though they are from different loca- 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, Vol. XVll. 



