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above and below the eye and the cheeks, dull grey or 

 greyish white, a little browner on the cheeks ; chin and throat 

 white, with a grey shade, most of the feathers black shafted. 

 A pale olive brown band across the breast ; lower breast, 

 abdomen, sides, flanks and tibial plumes, grey, darker and bluer 

 on the sides ; and the tips of some of the flank feathers with a 

 brown tinge ; lower tail-coverts pale fawny brown ; wing 

 lining and axillaries pure white. The posterior portion of the 

 forehead and the crown bright ferruginous chestnut, the feathers 

 dark shafted. Nape, back, and lesser wing-coverts dull brownish 

 olive ; wings and tail hair brown, with the visible portions in 

 the closed wing everywhere suffused with a faintly rufescent 

 olive shade ; the tail faintly and obsoletely barred ; the edge 

 of the winsf white. 



This little Stachyris, of which I have a single specimen, 

 obtained near the foot of Gunong Pulai, near the southernmost 

 extremity of the Malay Peninsula, belongs to the same 

 sub-group as rujiceps, Blyth, rufifrons, Hume, and prcecognitus, 

 Swinhoe, but is distinguished at once from all of them by its 

 grey face and grey underparts ; the latter only traversed by 

 the pale brown breast band. 



"When on the subject of Stachyris I should very much like to 

 know how S. bocagei of Salvadori is to be distinguished from S. 

 assimilis, Walden, which latter differs from S. chrysoza, Hodg- 

 son, precisely in the particulars by which bocagei is said to 

 differ. Perhaps Count Salvadori will kindly compare his 

 specimen with specimens of assimilis, and explain how they differ. 

 *396 D. — Timalia leucotis, Strichl. 



[Malacca, and foot of Gunong Pulai, Johoro.] 



Of this well-known species, unaccountably hitherto omitted 

 from our list, we have now procured numerous specimens, both 

 in the neighbourhood of Malacca and about the extreme south 

 of the Malay Peninsula. 



*403 bis. — Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Bly. 



[Kussoom,] 



This is another northern species which runs down the Malay 

 Peninsula, for 150 miles or so, south of the Tenasserim border. 

 *556 quat. — Phylloscopus tenellipes, Swinh. 



[Kussoom.] 



A single, but thoroughly typical, example. 

 *599. — Corydalla richardi, Vieill. 



[Kussoom, Poongah, Girbee, Klang, Singapore] 



Numerous specimens obtained this year in various parts of 

 the Peninsula. 



