204 Mr. C. Boden Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



authors have assigned his name correctly ; therefore I have 

 not used it here. The next name available is lepidocephala, 

 fixed by Biittikofer on Javan birds about which no doubt 

 exists. I have not been able to obtain topotypes, but the 

 appearance of the Siamese Ijirds is as follows : — 



General colour above brownish-olive (between " brownish 

 olive" and "medal bronze," Ridgioay)^ the rump brightest; 

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

 coverts a little duller ; visible portion of primaries like their 

 coverts, of secondaries like the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 tawny-rufous throughout ; tail-feathers above rather darker, 

 becoming dusky-rufous towards the end, but with tawny- 

 rufous edges for the greater part of their length ; crown of 

 head tawny-rufous, the feathers with pale shafts and black 

 tips ; the nape like the back, with obsolete dusky fringes to 

 the feathers ; frontal plumes, lores, and feathers round the 

 eye ashy-white, above the eye some small scaly feathers of 

 fulvous tipped with black ; ear-coverts pale fulvous-brown 

 with buffy shaft-lines ; cheeks fulvous-white with dusky 

 edges to the feathers ; throat white ; rest of under-surface 

 white, completely suffused with buffy ; sides of breast and 

 flanks slightly tinged with brownish-olive and sometimes 

 very vague stripes of the same on the breast ; thighs pale 

 brownish-olive, sometimes tinged with fulvous. Under tail- 

 coverts like the belly ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dull 

 buffy with dark bases. Quills dusky below, all except the first 

 and upper tertiaries with albescent edges to their inner webs. 



Sharpe's description of a Surnatran female (Cat. Birds, 

 vii. p. 567) seems to show considerable differences in the 

 tones of the colours : it may be that it was based on an old 

 and faded skin. A Javan female mentioned by him seems 

 to agree more closely. 



-f 88. Mixomis rubricapilla * sulphurea (Tickell) . 



Stachyridopsis sulphurea Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. xi. 1890, 

 p. 11. 



* With regard to the specific name of this bird, Mr. Oberholser has 

 pointed out (Smithsonian Misc. Collections, Ix. No. 7, p. 9) that 

 Motacilla gularis Raffles (Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 312, 1820) is 



