410 Mr. R. B. Sliarpe on the 



AndrophiJus, was most difficult to shoot from its extreme 

 tameness, as it often came within a few feet of us, and followed 

 us for several yards through the forest, making it extremely- 

 hard to obtain specimens without blowing them to bits. 

 Eye dark brown ; feet and bill black.] 



120. Orthxocichla whitehead!. (Plate XII.) 



Orthnocichla ivhiteheadi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 478, 

 a,h. c? ? ad. Kina Iklu, March 1888. 

 c. S ad. Kina Balu, Feb. 14, 1888. 



Adult male. General colour above warm chocolate-brown; 

 wing-coverts like the back ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts 

 blackish, externally edged with chocolate-brown ; quills 

 blackish, the primaries externally lighter brown than the 

 back, the secondaries like the latter; tail-feathers blackish, 

 narrowly margined with brown; crown of head blackish 

 brown, as far as the nape; hind neck like the back ; a broad 

 eyebrow of tawny buff running from the base of the nostrils 

 to the sides of the hind neck; sides of face tawny buff 

 below the eye ; lores, feathers round eye, and ear-coverts 

 blackish brown ; cheeks and under surface of body pure 

 white ; the fore neck and breast mottled with a few ashy 

 margins to the feathers ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs 

 ashy brown, more decidedly dark ashy on the sides of the 

 breast ; under tail-coverts lighter brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries blackish, edged with white ; quills below 

 blackish, more ashy along the inner edge. Total length 3'3 

 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 1*95, tail 0*8, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 3"3 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 1-85, tail 1'85, tarsus 0*75. 



This peculiar little bird seems to be strictly congeneric 

 with my Orthnocichla suhulata from Timor (Notes Leyd. Mus. 

 vi. p. 179), and though so strikingly different in colour, there 

 are several points of characteristic resemblance, viz. the white 

 under surface, the pale yellowish- white legs, and the broad 

 eyebrow, 



[Very Wren-like in habits, frequenting: the undergrowth 

 close to the ground, through which it creeps more after the 



