104 REVISION OF THE GENUS TURDINUS 



identified with the Sumatran , which are considerably much 

 smaller than those from Java , as will be seen in the 

 comparative measurements given below. It is the Sumatran 

 bird upon which this species is founded by Cabanis, and 

 therefore this name will have to stand above lepidocephala. 

 As we do not know precisely which species is meant by 

 the name Timalia rujicapilla Jacq. & Pucheran, which is 

 bestowed upon a specimen said to come from Poeloe Laut 

 (S. E. Borneo) and the present species not having been 

 recorded from Borneo by anybody else , it is very doubt- 

 ful whether this species really occurs on that island. The 

 name rufifrons Cab. being prior to lepidocephalum , which 

 embraced both the Sumatran and the Javan species , I pro- 

 pose to restrict the latter name upon the Javan species. 



The following are the measurements of our Sumatran 

 and Javan specimens : 



wing tail tars. culm. 



rufifrons (Sum.) cf 7, 96,6 cm. 6 2 1,5 



lepidocephalum (Java) 7,4 cm. 6,2 2,1 1,7 



4. Malacopieron lepidocephalum. 



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

 Napolhera lepidocephala (part.) Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd. ; (part.) 



Blyth, Ibis 1870, p. 170. 

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

 Malacopterum lepidocephalum (part.) Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 567 (1883). 



H a b. Java. 



Similar to the preceding species, but larger. 

 Three specimens, all belonging to the types of iVapoiAera 

 lepidocephala Mull. 



5. Malacopieron palawanense, nov. nom. ^) 



Trichostoma rufifrons (nee Cab.) Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 616, pi. 38. 

 Turdinus rufifrons (nee Cab.) Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 546 (1883); 

 id. Ibis 1884, p. 320; Whitehead, Ibis 1890, p. 50. 



Hab. Island of Palawan. 



1) The specific name rufi/rons being already used for the Sumatran species 

 of this genus, I am obliged to bestow a new name upon the present species. 



Notes from the Leyden ISduseum, Vol. XVII. 



