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or bands on the shoulders of the wing, or ou the forehead, or 

 above the eyes as in many other species. The cheeks and 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck are the same dark bine 

 as the crown. 



The point of the chin is white, or whitish, as are also the 

 sides of the upper throat where they abut on the lower 

 mandible and cheeks. The rest of the throat, breast, and 

 lower parts, including the lower tail-coverts, axillaries, and 

 wing lining are orange buff, pale on the throat, growing more 

 intense and ferruginous on the breast, and elsewhere again 

 paler, becoming almost white in the middle of the lower 

 abdomen. The extreme sides of the breast and the hinder 

 part of the flanks, where they join on to the back and rump, 

 brushed with the same dark blue as the upper parts. 



The following were the dimensions, etc., recorded in the 

 flesh of one of the two specimens : — Length, 5*7 ; expanse, 8'8 ; 

 tail, 2*15; wing, 28; tarsus, 07; bill from gape, 0*7; 

 weight, 0'52 oz. 



The bill was black ; the legs, feet, and claws purplish plum- 

 beous ; irides deep brown. 



* 332 ter. — Turdinulus murina, S. Mull. (Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 

 47.) 



Pnoepyga roberti, God.-A.ust. and Wald., Ibis, 1875, p. 252; 

 S. F., IV., 218 ; VI., 234. 



[Klang, in Selangore.] 



The occurrence of this species far down in the Malay Penin- 

 sula brought to my mind the bird described by Blyth, loc. cit., 

 and a comparison of my specimens, Indian and Malayan, with 

 Blyth's description have left me little doubt that the above 

 identification is correct. 



Blyth's description runs as follows : — 



" M. murina, S. Miiller, N. S., also a true Turdinm, and the 

 smallest of the genus. Plumage as in its congeners, with long 

 white supercilia, and white spots tipping the wing-coverts. 

 Length, 4^ inches ; wing, 2 inches ; tail, 1 inch ; bill to gape, 

 f inches. Sumatra. 



Now this description and these dimensions exactly fit our 

 bird. In my former notices of this (loc. cit. sup.) I unaccount- 

 ably omitted to give dimensions and colors of soft parts, 

 though we recorded these of a very large series. 



The sexes do not differ appreciably in size, but large and small 

 individuals of each occur. The following is a synopsis of the 

 measurements of nine individuals of both sexes, recorded in 

 the flesh. 



