90 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDTNUS 



every one and the species being only known from our 

 typical specimen , it will be advisable to add here a short 

 description of it. 



Upper surface pale olive-brown , the forehead somewhat 

 paler with a conspicuous white shaft-streak to each feather , 

 the crown-feathers with white shaft-streaks and very nar- 

 row black terminal edgings to each feather, quills and 

 tail-feathers sooty brown with the outer edges like back 

 and wing-coverts, loral feathers white at their base, an 

 indistinct eyebrow ashy with whitish shaft-streaks, ear- 

 coverts pale fulvous with white shaft-streaks, cheeks, chin, 

 throat and a broad median line along the lower surface 

 white, the chest slightly tinged with ashy, sides of neck 

 and body, flanks and thighs ashy brown, under tail-coverts 

 white with a fulvous hue, under wing-coverts and inner 

 edge of the quills white. Bill pale brown, lower man- 

 dible whitish, feet yellowish white. Wing 6, 6 cm., tail 5, 2, 

 tarsus 2, 7, culmen 1, 5. 



Genus JPvytnocataphus. 



Type: Drymocataphtts nigrocapitatus (Eyt.) Blyth , Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XVm, p. 815 (1849). 



This genus is easily distinguished by the following 

 combination of characters: Bill slender, nasal aperture 

 linear, rictal bristles wanting or feebly developed, never 

 surpassing the nostrils , tarsus half the length of the tail , 

 long, toes large and strong, above the eye a pale super- 

 ciliary stripe. — Ten species. 



Range. From British India through the Malay Penin- 

 sula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes. 



Key to the species, 



a. Crown black. 



a'. Breast orange rufous, legs brown in skin. 



a". Superciliary stripe orange rufous .... cajpistratus. 

 b". Superciliary stripe white, sides of head black, capistratoides. 

 c". Superciliary stripe gray, a malar streak 



only black nigricapitatus. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XVII. 



