1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 435 



Artamides larutensis, sp. n. 



"No. 30. c?. Irides brown. Tlie female has a lighter head 

 than the male. Fly usually in pairs or small parties." 



A large representative of A. larvaius, from which it differs in its 

 purer grey coloration, blacker chin and cheeks, and by the colour of 

 the under tail-coverts, which are white washed with ashy grey. The 

 under wing-coverts are also for the most part white, but in both 

 these cases the plumage may not be fully mature. 



. Adult male. General colour above uniform dark pearly grey, lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dark cindery 

 grey, edged with pearly grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black, fringed with ashy grey, margined with broader and 

 paler grey on the secondaries, the innermost narrowly fringed with 

 whitish at the ends ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; centre tail- 

 feathers ashy grey, blackish towards the ends, the remainder black 

 tipped with an ashy-grey spot, increasing in extent towards the 

 outermost, which is also pale ashy along the outer web ; crown of 

 head like the back ; a line across the base of the forehead, lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and fore part of cheeks black ; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat blackish, with an ashy shade, shading 

 off paler on the lower throat and fore neck ; remainder of under- 

 surface of body deep pearly grey, a little lighter than the back ; 

 thighs (lark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts white, grey near the vent, 

 the rest of the coverts marked with ashy grey ; under wing-coverts 

 grey, or grey varied with white bars ; axillaries grey ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy white along the inner edge. Total length 1 1 inches, 

 culmen 1-05, wing 6-45, tail 44, tarsus 0-95. 



Pericrocotus iGNEUs, Blyth ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 78 : Hume. 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 57. 



"No. 53. S- Irides brown. Not common. Only one specimen 

 of this Minivet was obtained." 



Cryptoloph A trivirgata (Strickl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 396 : 

 Saivad. t. c. p. 204. 



"No. 44. $ . Irides dark brown." 



Compared with specimens from West Java and Sumatra. 



Rhipidura albicollis (V.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 317. 



"No. 31. $. Irides brown. These Fantails are restless and 

 active in their habits, flitting about with their tails spread out and 

 hardly ever for a moment still. This species and the one found in 

 the low country {R. javanica) are said to be mad by the Malays, 

 from the absurd and restless way in which they are always hopping 

 and turning about. The present species I always found in small 

 flocks, and almost invariably vnth Quaker Thrushes (Alcijjpe), 

 Racket-tailed Drongos, Rhinocichla mitrata, and other birds. It 

 frequents dense jungle and has a sweet clear little song." 



The only difference between the specimen sent and others from 



