276 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



observing their habits. In these they, to a limited extent, 

 resemble Trichastoma, but yet differ in many ways. 



On the whole their habits more resemble those of Turdinus 

 macrodactylus than of any bird I know. — W. D.] 



Count Salvadori, in his invaluable work on the Birds of Borneo, 

 thus defines the three most nearly-allied species of this genus : — 



1. D. capistratus, Tem., from Java. 



Supercilium fulvous chestnut; cheek iu male ashy, in female 

 fulvous chestnut. 



2. D. capistratoides, Tern., from Borneo. 

 Supercilium white ; cheeks, black. 



3. D. nigricapitatus, Eyton ; from Malacca, Sumatra (and 

 I may add Southern Tenasserim). 



Sides of the head ashy, lined with white. N.B. — The lineation 

 is often not very distinct, and the ear-coverts are often strongly 

 tinged with ferruginous. 



This species is very rare, even in the extreme south of Tenas- 

 serim, and we only obtained two specinens, one a male, the other, 

 perhaps, a female. The male measured : — 



Length, 7*12 ; expanse, 9'0; tail from vent, 25 ; wing, 2*75; 

 tarsus, 1*25; bill from gape, 095 ; from frontal bone, 0'83; 

 weight, 125 oz. 



The other bird (?) a female. Length, 6*8 ; expanse, 2*0; tail 

 from vent, 2*35 ; wing, 1*7 ; tarsus, 1'25 ; bill from gape, 0'9 ; 

 at front, - 75 ; weight, a little over 1 oz. 



The legs and feet, in the first, were fleshy white, slightly ting- 

 ed with brown, in the second reddish horny; in both the upper 

 mandible was black ; the lower mandible fleshy white; hides 

 rhubarb red. 



Lores, cheeks and a broad stripe over and behind the eye, meet- 

 ing or all but meeting at the base of the occiput, grey, the latter 

 streaked, the rest more or less speckled with white ; the ear-co- 

 verts more or less ashy at the base, and sometimes over, perhaps, 

 half their length, but generally the greater portion of them pale 

 ferruginous, more or less streaked with a darker color, and paler 

 shafted ; a black line from the base of the lower mandible to just 

 below the middle of the ear-coverts; the chin and throat 

 between these lines snow white ; the rest of the throat in front, 

 mesially white, a little tinged with ferruginous ; side of the throat 

 and neck, entire breast, and more or less of the upper abdo- 

 men and of its sides, bright ferruginous ; rest of abdomen and 

 vent duller and browner ; lower tail-coverts darker and browner 

 still ; upper parts, from the nape, including all the visible portions 

 of the wing when closed, and tail, deep ferruginous brown, paler on 

 the nape, where the feathers are slightly paler shafted, reddest 

 and most ferruginous on the upper tail-coverts, deepest, becoming 

 almost a maroon on the tail j forehead, except the extreme point, 



