102 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



head , as high at the nostrils as it is broad , nasal aperture 

 oval and placed in front of the nasal groove, rictal bristles 

 long , reaching beyond the nostrils ; tail considerably much 

 shorter than the pointed wing , but three times as 

 long as the tarsus, which is remarkably short , not 

 more than an inch in length, toes rather short and weak 

 in proportion to the tarsus. — Nine species known. 



Range. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Banka , Java, 

 Borneo and Palawan. 



Key to the species. 



a. Tore jmrt of head rufous, tipped with black. 

 a . Nape black. 



a . Larger, throat and chest streaked with gray magnum, 

 b". Smaller, throat and chest unstreaked. . . cinereum. 

 b'. Nape olive-brown. 



a". Smallest, culmen 1,5 cm rujifrons. 



b". Larger , culmen 1, 7 cm lepidocepJiahm. 



c". Very large, culmen 2,1cm palawanense. 



b. Fore part of head not rufous. 



a'. Forehead and crown olive like the back, a distinct 



moustachial streak slaty gray magnirostre. 



b'. Crown different from back. 

 a". Crown sooty brown, front more or less 

 tinged with fulvous brown, no dark mous- 

 tachial streak affme. 



b". Crown dusky gray, moustachial streak ashy 



gray kalulongae. 



c". Crown dull black melanocephalum. 



1. Malacopteron magnum. 



Malacopteron magnum Eyt. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103; Bp. Consp. I, 



p. 259 (1850). 

 Malacopteron majus Blyth , Journ. As. Soc, Beng. XVI, p. 461 (1847); 



Bp. Consp. I, p. 259 (1850); Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 225 (1874). 

 Napothera pileata Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd. ; Bp. Consp. I, p. 359 (1850), 

 Malncopterum magnum Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p, 564 {18SS) el auct. rec. 



note in Sharpe, Cat. 13. VII, p. 563, as a doubtful species of Malacopteroti , 

 which perhaps would better be placed under RHnomyias. I also yield to this 

 latter opinion on account of Salvadori's expression: „\\ becco largo depresso, 

 robusto et con forti setole alia base." 



Notes from the Ley den JVXuseuixi, "Vol. XVII. 



