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Hab. Prom the Himalayas southward to the Central 

 Provinces and to the Malay Peninsula and Cochin China. 

 Five specimens from Nepal and Tenasserim. 



2. Mesolophus montis. 



Rubigula montis Sharpe , P. Z. S. 1879, p. 247 ; id. Ibis 1889, p. 276; 



Everett, List Birds Born. p. 115 (1889); Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 



277; id. id. 4892, p. 433; Hose, Ibis 1893, p. 392; Sharpe, 



Ibis 1894, p. 543. 

 Otocompsa montis Sharpe, Cat. B. VI, p. 162 (1881). 



Hab. Mountain-regions of Borneo. 



Two specimens from Mount Dulit (N. W. Borneo). 



Genus Ruhigula Blyth. 



Type: Rubigula dispar (Horsf.). 



Upper surface yellowish olive, head black, no distinct 

 crest , feathers on throat red , narrow and bristly , tarsus 

 equal in length to the culmen , tail almost square. — Two 

 species known. 



Range. Southern India, Sumatra and Java. 



Key to the species. 



a. Larger, chiu conspicuously black, throat brilliant scarlet, dispar. 



b. Smaller, black chin-spot scarcely visible, throat orange-red. gularis. 



1. Rubigula dispar. 



Turdus dispar Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 150 (1820); Raffl. 



t. c. p. 310; Temm. PI. Col. II, pi. 137 (1838). 

 Rubigula dispar Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XIV, p. 576 (1845); Sharpe, 



Cat. B. VI, p. 167 (1881). 



Hab. Sumatra and Java. 



Three specimens from Sumatra and two from Java. 



2. Rubigula gularis. 



Brachypus gularis Gould, P. Z. S, 1835, p. 186; Bp. Consp. I, p. 

 264 (1850). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII. 



