182 Capt. G. E. Shelley on Birds from 



of feathers from the centre. Under surface nearly uniform 

 huffish yellow, paler on the chin, cheeks, and upper throat, 

 brighter on the lower throat, slightly shaded with olive on 

 the crop and sides of the body, and passing into white down 

 the centre of the abdomen ; ear-coverts ashy olive, with ill- 

 defined yellowish shaft-stripes ; wing dark brown with ashy- 

 olive edges to the feathers above ; under wing-coverts 

 whitish yellow, pale inner margins of the quills almost white. 



T.johnstoni, $ , July. — Similar to the last, but differs in 

 having a few terminal spots of huffish chrome, with partial 

 black edges scattered over each series of wing-coverts ; 

 feathers of the sides of the throat, of the whole crop, and 

 sides of the body with broad olive edges ; tail rather brighter, 

 and with the pattern the same as in the adult, but with the 

 terminal dark bar decidedly narrower. 



T. orientalis. — Differs in having most of the feathers of 

 the top and sides of the head with shaft- stripes, widening 

 towards their ends, of rich ochre-buff with partial jet-black 

 edges ; feathers of the upper back and many of the wing- 

 coverts with similar, but much larger spots ; the few yellow 

 upper tail-coverts mostly tipped with black ; the tail-feathers 

 mostly with broad blackish edges and narrow dark ends, 

 except one pair, which has the end third uniform blackish 

 brown. 



It is probable that each of these three species goes through 

 similar phases of plumage, and that it is a young specimen 

 of T. orientalis which has been described as T. guttifer 

 (Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1895, p. 7Q)^ but I have not seen 

 the type. The mottled plumage of the young, together with 

 the rather long plain tarsus, shows, I consider, that Tarsiger 

 belongs to the same subfamily as the Robins and Redstarts. 



21. Malaconotus blanchoti. 



Laniarius poliocephalus (nee Licht.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 16. 



Malaconotus blanchoti, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 161, ex 

 Levaill. 



One male of this fine Bush-Slirike. 





