MALACOPTERUM. 147 



Whole upper plumage olive brown with a rufescent tinge, a little paler on 

 the forehead and brighter on the rump, where the feathers, are very long and 

 more or less conceal a large tuft of silky white plumes ; upper tail coverts 

 rufous ; tail dark brown with a reddish tint ; quills dusky brown, of a ruddy 

 tint on the outer web, innermost secondaries entirely so ; lores dull white 

 obscured with ashy brown tips to the feathers; sides of the head, feathers 

 over and round the eye pale fulvescent brown ; ear coverts brown with whitish 

 shaft-lines ; entire under surface, pure white, a little sullied on the breast and 

 under tail coverts ; under wing coverts and axillaries ashy brown washed 

 with fulvous ; the sides of the breast the same ; upper mandible of bill horny 

 black, the lower yellowish white, except the extreme tip ; legs and feet leaden 

 blue ; iris Indian red. 



Length. 4-9 to 5-5 inches ; wing 2*65 to 275 ; tail 2'i to 2'2 ; tarsus ro; 

 cuimen 0-7. 



Hab. From the extreme south of Tenasserim down the Malayan peninsula 

 to Sumatra and Borneo. It has been procured at Malewoon by Mr. Gates' 

 men. Of its habits there is nothing on record. 



Gen. Malacopterum. Eyton. 



General characters of Trichostoma> the back without spine-like plumes, the 

 rictal bristles long, and exceeding the length of hind toe ; tarsal envelope 

 strongly scutellate. 



620. Malacopterum magnum, Eyton, P. z. S. 1839, p. 103; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 259; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, p. 270; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, pp. 6 1, 95 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1882, p. 6 1 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 55 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 564. Malacopteron majus, Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. xvi. p. 461; Salvad. t Ucc. Born. p. 225 ; Tw-eed, Ibis, 1877, p. 

 309. The RED-HEADED TREE-BABBLER. 



Forehead and crown bright ferruginous, the anterior feathers black -shafted, 

 and the posterior ones faintly edged with black ; lores and a broad super- 

 cilium ashy grey with small ashy streaks on the latter ; a black patch on the 

 nape ; ear coverts fulvous brown with pale shafts ; upper plumage olive brown, 

 tinged with ferruginous on the rump ; the inner webs of the quills plain 

 brown ; upper tail coverts, central pair of feathers and the outer webs of all 

 the other feathers ferruginous ; the lateral tail feathers and the inner webs of the 

 others, except the central pair, plain brown ; chin, throat and upper breast 

 white streaked with grey ; rest of under surface of body greyish white, the 

 flanks washed with ashy brown ; the under tail coverts white ; under wing 

 coverts and axillaries ashy ; legs white ; feet and claws blue to pale 

 plumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny brown, the lower phumbeous or tinged 

 with blue, bluish white at tip j irides carmine to orange red. 



