512 CLASS XVI. 



G-arrulax LESS. Bill shorter than head, acuminate, keeled. 

 Nostrils placed in a fossa at the base of bill. Wings with fifth 

 and sixth quills longest of all. Tail somewhat long, rounded. 

 Tarsi long. Posterior claw longer than the rest. 



Sp. Garrulax perspicillatus, Turdus perspicillatus GM., BUFF., PL enl. 604 ; 

 Garrulax mitratus GRAY, Timalia mitrata SAL., MUELLER, Tijdschr. voor 

 not. Gesch. en Physiol. n. 1835, PI. ix. fig. 3; Garrulax lugubris GRAY, 

 Timalia lugubris S. MUELLER, 1. 1. fig. 2 ; the last two species are both 

 from Sumatra, &c. 



Trochaloptera HODGS. 



Pterocydus GRAY. Bill short, subulate. Bristles at the cheeks 

 long. Wings with fifth, sixth and seventh feathers longest of all. 

 Tail long, rounded. 



Sp. Garrulax lineatus BLYTH, Pterocyclus setifer GRAY; Garrulax erythroce- 

 phalus BLYTH, &c. ; species from the central parts of Asia. 



Actinodura GOULD, Leiocincla BLYTH, Ixops HODGS. 



Cindosoma VIGORS, HORSF. Bill short, with culmen nearly 

 straight, subulate. Wings short, with fourth and fifth quills long- 

 est of all. Tail elongate, graduated. 



Sp. Cindosoma punctatum, Turdus punctatus LATH. &c. Species from Aus- 

 tralia and Van Diemen's Land. 



Pomatorhinus HORSF. Bill moderate, curved, keeled, com- 

 pressed, with margins entire. Nostrils basal, lateral, covered by 

 a scale. Gape of mouth produced under the eyes. Tarsi long. 

 Wings concave, with quills gradually longer up to the fourth, 

 the fourth, fifth and sixth subequal, longest of all. Tail long, 

 graduated. 



Sp. Pomatorhinus montanus HORSF.; Java, Sumatra; Pomatorhinus tempo- 

 rails Via. and HORSF., Pomatorhinus trivirgatus TEMM. PL col. 443 ; At 

 tralia, &c. 



Timalia HORSF. Bill shorter than head, broad at the 

 curved, compressed, finely emarginate at the tip. Nostrils basal, 

 placed in a fossa, covered by a scale. Short bristles at the angle of 

 bill. Tarsi long. Wings short, concave, with fifth and sixth quills 

 subequal, longest of all. Tail moderate, rounded or graduated. 

 (Feathers of back, and often also of throat, decomposed.) 



Sp. Timalia thoracica TEMM. PI. col. 76 ; Java, Sumatra ; Timalia nigricolli 

 TEMM. PI. col. 594, fig. 2, &c. 



