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84. Auciprre AFFINIs, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 795 (1842), 
xili. p. 384. 
Napothera atricapilla, Miller, Mus. Lugd. ; Bonap. Consp. Gen. 
Av. p. 359. 
Burone Niva of the Malays (Cantor). 
Distinguished by its dark crown, pale nape, rufescent hue of the 
back and rump, and deep ferruginous tail-feathers, white under 
parts, and distinct brownish-grey band crossing the breast. 
Length, 53 inches ; of wing, 25ths ; tail, 25, its outermost feather, 
5ths shorter ; bill to forehead (through the feathers), 3ths ; to gape, 
18ths ; and tarse, ths of an inch. 
85. Aucrpre Cantort, Moore, n. sp. 
Upper parts olive-brown, tinged with rufous on the rump; crown 
ash-brown, much lighter than in A. affinis, nape paler ; lores, above 
and behind the eyes, with the ear-coverts, ashy-white ; throat, belly, 
vent and under tail-coverts white, breast mingled white and ash ; 
wings rufescent-brown, the remiges with brighter margins ; upper 
tail-coverts and tail deep rufo-ferruginous, darkening towards the 
tip ; bill horny above, pale below; feet greenish. 
Length, nearly 74 inches; of wing, 3; tail, 31th ; bill to frontal 
plumes, + an inch; to gape, 3ths ; and tarse, }$ths of an inch. 
Distinguished from A. afinis and A. albogularis, Blyth, by its 
larger size, and longer wings and tail. Malacca. 
86. ALcripPE MAGNIROSTRIS, Moore, n. sp. 
Upper parts olive-brown, darkest on the crown and palest on the 
nape, and tinged with rufous on the rump, the feathers of the crown 
spatulate, and with a perceptibly darker shaft and margin; lores 
and streak over, but not beyond the eye, whitish ; base of the lower 
mandible down the sides of the throat, with the tips of some of the 
feathers of the cheeks dark-ash ; throat, belly, vent and under tail- 
coverts white ; sides of the breast ashy-olive, the centre more ashy ; 
wings rufescent-brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail deep rufo-ferru- 
ginous ; bill horny above, paler below ; feet greenish. 
Length, 6 inches; of wing, 3; tail, 23ths; bill to frontal plumes, 
;f;ths ; to gape, ;%ths; tarse, }4ths of an inch. 
May be known from the other described species by its larger and 
more robust bill, and by the dark-ash streak down the sides of the 
throat. Malacca. 
87. AucippE striata, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 793 (1842). 
? Myiothera epilepidota, Temm. PI. Col. 448. f. 2. 
Head and neck above black, or rather brown-black, the feathers 
of the mesial line white about the shaft, forming a streak of this 
colour along the middle of the head, besides which there are two slight 
lateral streaks not observable in every specimen, in addition to a 
superciliary line of the same; on the nape the white centres of the 
feathers are broader and more irregularly disposed, while on the 
back they become much narrower again, more or less so in different 
