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chin, and generally the median portion of the throat, with the belly 
and lower tail-coverts white; breast and flanks brownish-fulvous, 
brighter in old males; the throat and fore-neck streaked laterally 
with olivaceous, which in some specimens crosses the breast above 
the fulvous hue, and is more or less ashy ; others again, evidently 
the old males, have the entire crown and neck all round, of a dusky 
ash colour, mingled with white on the middle of the throat. Bill 
dusky above, the basal two-thirds of the lower mandible yellow ; legs 
pale brown.” 
Length, 83 to 9 inches; of wing, 43 to 5; tail, 33. 
‘«Inhabits the eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal,” says Mr. Blyth, 
“from Arracan to the Straits of Malacca, becoming more numerous 
southward ;” and M. Drapiez mentions having received it from Java, 
where it is a periodical visitant. 
75. TURDINUS MACRODACTYLUS. 
Malacopteron macrodactylum, Strick]. P. Z.S. 1846, p. 103. 
Turdinus macrodactylus, Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 382. 
Brachypteryz albogularis, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 401. 
Tana of the Malays, Eyton. 
Common at Malacca. 
76. Tricarxos pyrruopyGa, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167. 
Turdirostris superciliaris, A. Hay, Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 11. 
p- 163 (1844). 
Napothera pyrrhomelanura, Miller. 
Male—colour of the head, nape, back, chin, throat, breast, and 
shoulders ashy-black, deepest above; a white superciliary streak 
above but not beyond the eye; rump, upper tail-coverts and tail 
bright rufous, the latter tipped with a broad deep brown-black 
band; wings brown, margined with ashy; flanks and under tail- 
coverts rufous, belly and vent whitish, washed with rufous; bill 
black ; legs pale yellow. 
Length, 83 inches; of wing, 4; tail, 4, its outermost feathers 
shorter ; bill to front (through the feathers) 1),th; to gape, 12ths; 
tarse, 1,1,th. 
In the young or female the plumage above is brown mixed with 
rufous; the forehead, round the eyes, chin, throat, breast, flanks, 
and under tail-coverts dusky rufous, whitish on the middle of the 
belly and vent; the wings brown, the coverts tipped with rufous ; 
the bill is rather shorter and thicker, and is of a horny colour above, 
yellowish below at base. 
77. Macronus pritosus, Jard. et Selby, Ill. Orn. t. 150 (1835). 
Timalia trichorros, Temm. Pl. Col. 594. f. 1 (1836). 
Burone Tanat-uBan of the Malays, Blyth. 
78. MaLacorpTERON CORONATUM. 
Napothera coronata, Miller, Mus. Lugd.; Bonap. Consp. Gen. 
Av. p. 358. 
Malacopteron magnum apud Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 461. 
