PHYLLERGATES. 287 



frequents thick forest and brushwood, and is not found much on cultivated 

 land. It is strictly arboreal in its habits. 



348. OrthotOmUS ruficeps, (Lesson) Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 79; 

 Salvad. Ucc. Borneo, p. 248; Sharpe, Ibis., 1877, p. 114; Tweed. P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 619; Hume and Davison, Sir. F. 1878, p. 346; id. 1879, pp. 64, 

 101 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 341 ; id. Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 324. Edela* 

 ruficeps, Less., Tr. d' Orn. p. 309. Orthotomus sericeus, Tem.pl. col., text to 

 JOJ. The RED-HEADED TAILOR BIRD. 



Forehead, crown and nape bright chestnut, also the lores ; rest of sides of 

 the face yellowish buff ; upper rnargin of ear coverts bright chestnut like the 

 crown ; back, scapulars and rump ashy brown, inclining to ashy grey on the 

 rump ; upper tail coverts ashy rufous ; tail chestnut ; wing and coverts brown, 

 edged with ashy or ashy grey, the quills very slightly washed with rufous 

 towards the tip of outer web ; cheeks, lower half of ear cpverts and entire under 

 surface of body yellowish buff ; thighs chestnut ; under wing coverts fulvous ; 

 irjs yellow, salmon, or pale brown. 



Length. 5-12 to 5*2 inches; tail I'S to 175 ; wing 1*82 to 2-0; tarsus 0-8 

 IQ 0^85 . Females are very slightly smaller. 



Hab. The Indo-Malayan Islands, the Malay Peninsula, and the southern 

 Boundary of Tenasserim. 



Of its habits nothing is qn record j but there can be little doub.t of its being 

 trje same as thqse of its other congeners. 



Qen. Phyllergates. SW/tf. 



Tail of 12 feathers; the outermost much longer than in OrlhoJomus, and 

 falling short of the remainder by 0*4 to o - $ inches; bill more equilateral. 

 Other characters as in Qrtho.tomus. 



349. Phyllergates COrOnatUS, (Jerd. and Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus., vii. p. 230. Qrthotomus coronatus, Jerd. and Blyth, P. Z. S. 1861, 

 p. 200. Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 1 68, No. 531 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. 

 P- 334; Wald. in Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 121 ; Sharpe, Ibis., 1877, p. 1 15 ; Hume 

 and Dav-, Str. F. vi. p. 346; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. loi. Phyllobates* 

 coronatus, Oqtc$, B. Br. fiurm.i.p. no. The GOLDENTHEADED TAILOR BIRD. 



Forehead and fore part of crown bright orange, the nape greenish, the hind- 

 neck and sides of neck grey ; round the eye a ring of yellow feathers, also a 

 short yellow supercilium ; lores and sides of the face grey, the ear coverts 

 whitish on their lower margin ; cheeks, throat and forcncck white, rest of 



* Evidently a misprint for Fhyllergates. 



