1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 439 



Alcippe peracensis, sp. n. 



" No. 32. c? ■ Irides brown. This bird is common on the 

 higher parts of the hills. It has a loud and musical soug." 



By the absence of the white eyelids this new species ought to be 

 allied to Alcippe phteocephala and A. citierea ; but it has a very 

 distinct black band running down the sides of the neck, thus showing 

 its affinity to A. nipalensis. It is, in fact, closely allied to the latter 

 species, but may be distinguished by the want of the white ring of 

 feathers round the eye. 



Adult. General colour above warm brown from the lower mantle 

 downwards ; the upper tail-coverts like the back ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 externally like the back ; the primaries edged with fulvous brown ; 

 tail-feathers browu, externally like the back ; crown of head, 

 occiput, nape, hind neck, and upper mantle dark slaty grey, with a 

 black streak extending from above the eye to the upper back ; lores 

 ashy white ; feathers round eye, ear-coverts, and sides of neck ashy 

 grey, lighter on the cheeks, which incline to ashy white like the 

 throat ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen creamy white ; the sides of 

 body and flanks light brown, darkening on the latter ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts light brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 whity brown ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner 

 edge. Total length 5'4 inches, culmen O'.T, wing 2'5, tail 2'.5, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Minla soror, sp. n. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



"No. 42. d". Irides dark brown." 



Closely allied to M. castaneiceps, from which it differs in its much 

 larger size, darker olive-brown coloration, and deep chestnut, not 

 orange, edging to the quills. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, more distinctlj' olive on 

 the lower back and rump ; the mantle with narrow pale shaft- 

 streaks, not very distinct; lesser and median coverts like the back; 

 external greater coverts black, the inner ones olive-brown ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black ; quills dusky blackish, externally 

 olive-brown ; the primaries edged with chestnut towards the base ; 

 the outer primaries margined with white ; upper tail-coverts like the 

 back ; tail-feathers ashy brown, externally olive-brown ; crown of 

 head and nape bright chestnut, the feathers mesially streaked with 

 rufous shaft-lines, white towards the forehead ; lores and feathers 

 round and below the eye sulphur-yellow ; ear-coverts with a black 

 streak along the upper part, surmounted by a streak of sulphur- 

 yellow ; remainder of ear-coverts yellow streaked with black, and 

 with a black stripe below, separating them from the cheeks, which, 

 with the throat and under surface of body, are pale yellowish buif ; 

 the feathers of the cheeks and throat slightly mottled with browu 

 tips ; sides of body and flanks olive-brown ; thighs olive-brown ; 

 under tail-coverts yellowish white, with dusky centres ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy yellowish 



