1887.J MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 435 



Artamides larutensis, sp. n. 



"No. 30. <S ' Irides brown. Tiie female has a lighter head 

 than the male. Fly usually in pairs or small parties." 



A large representative of A. larvatus, from which it differs in its 

 purer grey coloration, blacker chin and cheeks, and by the colour of 

 the under tail-coverts, which are white washed with ashy grey. The 

 under wing-coverts are also for the most part white, but in both 

 these cases the plumage may not be fully mature. 



Adult male. General colour above uniform dark pearly grey, lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dark cindery 

 grey, edged with pearly grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black, fringed with ashy grey, margined with broader and 

 paler grey on the secondaries, the innermost narrowly fringed with 

 whitish at the ends ; upper tail-;30verts like the back ; centre tail- 

 feathers ashy grey, blackish towards the ends, the remainder black 

 tipped with an ashy-grey spot, increasing in extent towards the 

 outermost, which is also pale ashy along the outer web ; crown of 

 head like the back ; a line across the base of the forehead, lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and fore part of cheeks black ; sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat blackish, with an ashy shade, shading 

 off paler on the lower throat and fore neck ; remainder of under- 

 surface of body deep pearly grey, a little lighter than the back ; 

 thighs dark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts white, grey near the vent, 

 the rest of the coverts marked with ashy grey ; under wing-coverts 

 grey, or grey varied with white bars; axillaries grey; quills below 

 dusky, ashy white along the inner edge. Total length 11 inches, 

 culrnen 1*05, wing 6*45, tail 4*4, tarsus 095. 



Pericrocotus igneus, Blyth ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 78 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 57. 



"No. 53. c? . Irides brown. Not common. Only one specimen 

 of this Minivet was obtained." 



Cryptoloph A trivirgata (Strickl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 396 ; 

 Salvad. t. c. p. 204. 



"No. 44. 5 . Irides dark brown." 



Compared with specimens from West Java and Sumatra. 



Rhipidura albicollis (V.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 317. 



"No. 31. $. Irides brown. These Fantails are restless and 

 active in their habits, flitting about with their tails spread out and 

 hardly ever for a moment still. This species and the one found in 

 the low country (E. javanica) are said to be mad by the Malays, 

 from the absurd and restless way in which they are always hopping 

 and turning about. The present species I always found in small 

 flocks, and almost invariably with Quaker Thrushes {Alcippe), 

 Racket-tailed Drongos, Rhinocichla mitrata, and other birds. It 

 frequents dense jungle and has a sweet clear little song." 



The only difference between the specimen sent and others from 



