74 TIMELI1D/E. 



of pure white ; sides of neck and breast white, tipped with blackish ; rest of 

 under surface white ; back, scapulars and lesser wing coverts black ; greater 

 coverts black, tipped with white ; primaries wholly black ; secondaries and 

 tertiaries black, each feather white at base, and also tipped with white ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts white ; tail black, tipped and basally white, the two 

 outermost white. 



In the female the red colour extends over the whole upper back in undimi- 

 nished purity of colour, and thence over the scapulars and nearly all that portion 

 of the back which is black in the male, leaving only a black band from o'l to 

 0'2 inch wide, dividing the red from the white of the rump ; but on all these 

 parts, the red is duller, browner and less pure. Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 362. Bill black ; irides dark brown ; legs and feet pale pinky or fleshy 

 white ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 7-2 to 8 inches; wing 3-25 to 37 ; tail 2-9 to 3'5 ; tarsus 1*05 ; 

 culmen 0*9. 



Hab. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo ; also in Tenasserim, 

 in the extreme south about Malewoon. 



506. HydrOCichla frontaliS (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 321 ; Dates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 29. Enicurus frontalis, BL, J . A. S. B. 

 xvi. p. 156. Henicurus frontalis, Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 259, pi, ix, ; Oates t 

 Sir. F. 1877, P- 2 48 5 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, PP- 6 5> 103 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 255. The LESSER BLACK-BACKED FORK-TAIL. 



Forehead and front of crown white ; rest of head, also the neck, breast, 

 back and lesser wing coverts black ; rump, upper and under tail coverts and 

 lower plumage white; primaries black, also the secondaries and tertiaries, their 

 bases white, two outermost tail feathers white, the others black, with white 

 bases and tips. 



The young have no white on the head, and the general colour is sooty black. 

 Bill black. 



Length. 8 inches; wing 3-45 to 3-5 ; tail 3*5 ; tarsus ri ; culmen 0-8. 



Hab. From South Tenasserim down the Malayan Peninsula. It has 

 only been found in South Tennasserim at Bankasom, where Mr. Davison, and 

 Mr. Gates' collectors secured specimens. 



Gen. MicrOCichla. Sharpe. 



Characters the same as those of Hydrocichla^ but the wing much longer 

 than the tail, which is nearly square. 



507- MicrOCichla SCOUleri (Vigors}, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 322. Enicurus scouleri, Vigors. P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 174; Gould, 

 Cent. Him. B . pi. xxvii. 1832 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 214 ; Hume, Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B. p. 377. Enicurus nigrifrons, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 102 ; 

 Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 215 ; Godwin- Austen, J. A. S. B. xxxix, p. 107. Heni- 



