96 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



Genus MUlleria , n. g. 



Type: The only species of the genus. 



Bill slender, nasal aperture distinctly linear and placed 

 at the lower edge of the membrane, rictal bristles very- 

 short, tail somewhat longer than the wing, more than 

 twice and a half the length of the tarsus , rounded , the 

 outermost tail-feather much shorter than the second ; tarsus 

 more than an inch in length, strong, toes long and strong. 



This genus stands very near Drymocataphus as to its slender 

 bill , the shortness of the rictal bristles , the strong feet 

 and the distinct pale eyebrow, but differs from it by the 

 rufous cap and the tail being longer than the wing. 



Sharpe , in his Catalogue VII, has ranged this bird under 

 Dumetia , but this latter belongs to quite a different type 

 on account of the quite different shape of the bill, and 

 the rounded nasal aperture , the regularly graduated , almost 

 cuneate tail , which is nearly or fully three times the length 

 of the tarsus, and being altogether a much smaller bird 

 than our Timor species. 



1. Mülleria hivittata. 



Napothera hivittata Bp. Consp. I, p. 359 (1850), ex Mull. MS. in 



Mus. Lugd. 

 Drymocataphus bivittatus Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 489. 

 Timalia bivittatus Gray, Handl. B. I, p. 315 (1869). 

 Dumetia hivittata Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 516 (1883). 



Hab. Timor. 



The typical specimen ((ƒ), collected by S. Muller, in the 

 Leyden Museum. 



Genus Pellomeum, 



Type: Pellorneum rujiceps Swains. Fn. Bor.-Am., Birds, p. 487 (1831). 



Bill slender, nasal opening linear, rictal bristles short, 

 not reaching to the nostrils; tail as long as the wing, 

 strongly rounded , about twice and a half the length of 



r<fotes from tlie I-ieyden. JMuseuizi, Vol. X.V11, 



