AND ALLIED GENERA. 105 



Two specimens iu the Leyden Museum. 



This bird is a true Malacopteron , and the largest of 

 the genus. The male specimen in our Museum has the 

 throat distinctly striped, the female not. 



6. Malacopteron magnirostre. 



Alcippe magnirostris Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 277; Horsf. & Moore, 



Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mu3. I, p. 407 (1854). 

 Malacopteron magnirostris Gray, Handl. B. I, p. 317 (1869); Hiime 



& Davison, Str. Feath. 1878, p. 274; Hume, Str. Feath. 1879, 



pp. 61 and 96. 

 Malacopterum magnirostre Oates, B. Br. Burma, I, p. 56 (1883); id. 



B. Br. Ind. I, p. 151 (1889). 

 Turdinns magnirostris Sharpe , Cat. B. VII, p. 547 (1883); id. Ibis 



1889, p. 415; id. id. 1890, pp.278 and 286; id. id. 1893 , pp. 548 



and 549. 



H a b. Malay Peninsula , extending northward to Tenas- 

 serim and Cochin China ; Sumatra and Borneo. 



One specimen from Singapore and four from Sumatra 

 in the Leyden Museum. 



7. Malacopteron ajine. 



Trichastoma affine Blyth , Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XI, p. 795 (1842). 

 Alcippe affinis Blyth, I.e. XIII, p. 384 (1844) et XIV, p. 462 (1847); 



Bp. Consp. I, p. 259 (1850); Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 277. 

 Malacopteron affine Gray, Gen. B. I, p. 209 (1846); id. Handl. 



B. I, p. 317. 

 Napothera atricapilla Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd.; Bp. Consp. I, p. 359 



(1850); Blyth, Ibis 1865, p. 47. 

 Setaria affinis Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 231 (1884); Sharpe, Ibis 



1879, p. 258. 

 Malacopterum affine Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 569 (1883); Everett, 



Journ. Straits Branch R. As. Soc. 1889, p. 106; Sharpe, Ibis 



1894, p. 542. 



Hab. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Banka, Java, Borneo 

 and South Celebes. 



Numerous specimens from Borneo, one from Java, one 

 from Banka and one from Macassar (Teysmann). The Javan 

 as well as the Macassar specimen are exactly similar to 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseum , Vol. ZKVII. 



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