492 ON A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FEOM THE [3877. 



77. Teicholestes crinigee. 



Brachypodms{X) criniger, A. Hay, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 577, " Malacca." 



Tricophorus minutus, Hartlaub, J. fiir O. 1853, p. 156, " Malacca." 



Tricholestes minutus (Hartlaub), Salvador!, t. c. p. 265, t. v. f. 1, " Sarawak" (1874). 



Mr. Buxton procured one specimen, which in no way differs from Sarawak individuals. 



Why has Count Salvador! {I. c.) preferred Hartlaub's title, minutus, for the Malaccan bird to 



mine of crinirjer, published seven years previously? 



78. Alcueus ochrocephalus. . 



Turdus ochrocephalus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 821 (1788) ; Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 379. [Antea, p. 230.] 



79. RUBIGULA DISPAR. 



Turdus dispar, Horsf. t. c. p. 150, "Java" (1820); Eaffles, t. c. p. 310, "Sumatra;" Temm, 

 PI. Col. 137. 



80. Brachtpus euptilosus. 



Brachypus euptilosus, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. t. iii., " Singapore" (1825 ?). 

 Malaccan examples do not differ. 



81. Brachtpus plumosus. 



Pycnonotus plumosus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. 567, 6 , "Singapore." 

 Ibis, 1877, Pycnonotus brunneus, Blyth, t. c. p. 568, $ , " Malacca." 



p. 307. Brachypus modestus, A. Hay ; Blyth, t. c. p. 568, S , " Malacca." 



The single example in Mr. Buxton's collection is passing from the brown plumage of the 

 immature B. brunneus to the greener plumage of the adult. Count Salvador! {t. c. p. 199) 

 states that the brown birds are females and young males, while the adult males are distinguished 

 by the green colouring of the wings and tail. In a large series of the species, with sexes 

 ascertained by dissection, and collected at Malacca by Mr. W. Eamsay, I find females fully as 

 green in plumage as males. An example collected by Mr. Maingay at Malacca, with green 

 wings and tail, is marked by that collector as being a female ; and he was a most competent 

 authority. A large series from Java consists of examples undistinguishable from Malaccan. 

 Labuan individuals also belong to the same species. 



Pycnonotus pusillus, Salvador! {t. c. p. 200) seems to be the bird described by Moore under 

 the title of Microtarsus olivaceus (Cat. E.I. C. Mus. i. p. 249), ex Malacca, where it is not 

 uncommon. I have compared Bornean examples and can detect no difference. 



82. Brachypodius meianocepealus. 



Lanius melanocephalus, Gm. S. N. i. p. 309. no. 51 (1788). 



Turdus melanocephalus, Kaffles, t. c. p. 310, "Sumatra" (1820). 



Brachyiwdlus immaculatus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 39, " Sibu, Borneo." 



