116 THE BIRDS OF THE WESTERN HALF 



Length, 3*9 to 4-7 ; expanse, 65 to 7*15 ; tail, 05 to 09 ; 

 wing, 1-9 to 2-1 ; tarsus, 07 to 0'85 ; bill from gape, 0'7 to 082 ; 

 weight, 0-62 to 0*7 oz. 



The legs, feet, and claws, vary from pale brown and brown 

 to pale fleshy brown and dusky fleshy ; the upper mandible 

 from brown to black, the lower mandible pale to dark plumbe- 

 ous ; the irides brown from light brown, to cinnabar, or again 

 Sienna brown, and to deep brown. 



The general shade of color of the birds also varies a 

 good deal ; some are paler, some darker, some have the 

 long superciliary stripe and the entire throat buff color, and 

 the entire breast and abdomen olive brown, the feathers 

 streaked centrally with buffy white, and no pale unstreaked 

 patch in the middle of the abdomen. Others have the super- 

 cilium and the entire throat and even part of the breast white, 

 and the greater part of the abdomen unstreaked white, clouded 

 with the same brownish rufescent buff, that covers the 

 throat of the specimens at the other end of the scale, and with 

 the brown striated feathers almost confined to the sides of the 

 breast and flanks. 



The two types look rather different at first sight, but they 

 run into each other, and the birds are structurally identical. 



Taken as a body, though there are exceptions to the rule, the 

 Assam birds appear to be deepest colored, the Malayan palest, 

 and the Tenasserim intermediate. 



*35l Us. — Cyanocinclus solitarius. P. L. S. Mull. 



[Girbee.] 



Another species that runs a short way down the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



* 353 A.— Petrophila gularis, Swinh. {Ibis, 1863, p. 93, PI. 3. 



[Malacca."] 



A single specimen of this Chinese species was obtained 

 in the neighbourhood of Malacca. A fine adult male in full 

 plumage. 



* 393 bis A — Stachyris poliogaster, Sp. Nov. 



[Foot of Gunong Pulat Johoro.] 



Length, 4*6 ; expanse, 6-5 ; tail, 1*7 ; wing, 2'05 ; tarsus, 0-65 ; 

 bill from gape, 0'6 ; bill at front from margin of feathers, 

 052 ; weight, 0'45 oz. 



Irides a deep brown; lower mandible fleshy pink; upper 

 mandible plumbeous brown ; legs, feet, and claws dark fleshy, 

 tinged with green. 



The entire lores, extending quite to the nostrils, and closing 

 over the culmen so as to form a frontal band, the feathers 



