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natis ; rectricibus rtifo-brunneis, rufo marginatis ; loris svperci- 



liisgue cinerascentibus, mento et guld sordide albidis, pectore 



latenbusque pallide olivaceis, abdomine pallide fulvo, crisso pal- 



lide rufo. 



Upper parts olive-brown ; remiges fuscous, edged externally with 



reddish brown and internally with whitish ; tail reddish brown, mar- 



gined extemally with rufous. Lores and streak over eye greyish , 



chin and throat dirty white ; breast and sides pale olive-brown ; belly 



pale fulvous ; vent and lower tail-covers light rufous ; upper man- 



dible fuscous, lower yello\visb; feet and claws ycUcnrish brown. 



Totai length, 6 inches ; beak to front, lOlines; to gape, 1 inch ; 



height, 3 lines; breadth, Z\ lines; wing, 2 inches 10 lines; medial 



rectrices, 2\ inches ; external ditto, 2 inches ; tarsus, 1 inch ; middle 



toe and claw, 1 1 lines ; hind ditto, 9 lines. 



Malacopteron macrodactylum, Strickland in Ann. Nat. Hist., v. xiii. 

 p. 417. — Since described as Brachypterya; albogularishyBT. Hartlaub, 

 Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401. It is however a true Malacopteron, -vvhich 

 genus differs from the type of Brachypteryx by its shorter legs and 

 by the beak, in -vvhich the shrike-like form is developed to the greatest 

 extent of all the Timaliina. Brachypteryx sepiaria of Horsf. is a 

 Malacopteron * . 



Timalia pectoralis, Blyth (= Malacopteron squamatum, Eyton). 



Timalia nigricollis, Tem. PI. Col. 594. f. 2. (Brachypteryx nigrogu- 



laris, Eyton ; Timalia erythronotus, Blyth), — This is a typical Timalia. 



Timalia erythroptera, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. {Timalia pyr- 



rhophaa, Hartl. ; Brachypteryx acutirostris, Eyton). — A true Timalia. 



Amadina acuticauda, Hodgs. in Asiatic Researches, v. xix. — A 



well-marked species intermediate between A. striata, Lin., and A. 



punctularia, Lin. 



Agapornis? malaccensis, Lath. sp. — In the descriptions hitherto 

 given of this bird no mention is made of the deep brownish red 

 feathers on the radial margiu of the wing. Mr. Blyth makes of 

 this bird his genus Psittinus. 



Tiga Rafflesi, Vig. — The only description vhich I can find of this 

 curious bird is in the classified list given by Mr. Vigors of the ani- 

 mals of Java and Sumatra, published in the Appendix to the edition 

 of the ' Life of Sir Stamford Raffles.' As few persons think of look- 

 ing into a biographical work for a treatise on zoology, this paper is 

 less kno\vn than it deserves to be, and I therefore extract the dia- 

 gnosis given by Mr. Vigors of the species before us : — 



Pigūs eafflesi, Vig., 1. c. p. 669. P. supra flavescenti-brunneus, 

 subtus brunneus ; capite coccineo ; gula pallide ferruginea ; 

 strigis, una ab oculis, secunda a rietu extendentibus maculisąue 

 ad latera abdominis albis ; strigis duabus ad latera genarum, 

 alteri parvd superciliari ; remigibus rectricibusque nigris. 



• Mr. Blyth makes my M. macrodactylum the type of his genus Turdinus, but 

 I cannot approve of genera founded on such very slight distinctions. 



