56 



ol. TURDINULUS GRAXTI. Richmoxd. 



Turdinulns liumii, Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus., i, 

 p. 26 (1905). 

 $■ 4 ?. 



Commonei' on the Negri Sembilan hills than anywlicre else in 

 the Peninsula. 



i52. ALCIPPE CINEREA, Blyth. 



5.3. STACHYRIS DAVISONl. Shahpe. 

 3 ^, 3 ?. 



54. STACHYRIS POLIOCEPHALA (Temm.). 



s, ?. 



55. STACHYRIS LEUCOTIS (Strickl.). 

 2 <?, 5 ?. 

 Common in Neo:ri Sembilan but much rarer to the north. 



2 S. 

 2 <?, ? 

 S, ?• 



5(i. STACHYRIS MACULATA (Temm.). 



CYAXODERMA ERYTHROPTERCM (Blttii). 



58. HERPORNIS ZANTHOLEUCA HoDiJS. 



.jO. GEOCICHLA IXTERPRES, (Temm.). 

 Geociehla avensis, Hume, Stray, Feath., viii, p. 39 (79) ; Oate.s. 

 Faun. Brit. Ind.. Birds, ii, p. 138 (1890). 



5 Imni. 



In 1878 one of Hume's collectors obtained an immature thrush 

 from the hills of Rembau, which was identified with the species 

 described by Grey from a native drawing from a specimen procured 

 in Upper Burma, while Dr. Abbott also collected specimens identified 

 as (t. interpres by Richmond on the hills of Trang, Western Siamese 

 States, in 1896 ; no other examples have been recorded from the Malay 

 Peninsula. Hume relied on the absence of a white wing bar in his 

 specimen to separate it from G. interpres, but Gates, loc. cit., states 

 that the specimen is in moult and tfiat the sprouting feathers appear 

 to possess this feature which is fully developed in our specimen 

 from Tampin. Our collectors confused the bird with immature 

 HyrdocicJila ruficainlla which affects similar situations and which 

 they have been told not to collect in numbers, and this perhaps 

 accounts for its not having been obtained before. Possibly also, as 

 is the case with the other .species of Geociehla in the Peninsula, the 

 species is migratory. 



There is, we think, little doubt that the nominal species, G. avensis, 

 has no existence in fact. 



