1918. ] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Ktoss: Birds. 185 
“ Adult female: (No. 593). Iris brown, orbital skin pale 
bluish silvery, bill black, feet brownish black.” 
“ Adult male: (No. 1064). Iris rich brown, orbital skin 
silvery cobalt, bill black, feet brownish black.” 
“ Adult male: (No. 725). Iris whitish, bill black, yellow 
at gape, feet slaty.”’ 
‘** Adult male: (No. 916). Iris reddish, bill black, yellow 
at gape, feet brownish.” 
“Immature male: (No. 412). Iris whitish blue, bill black, 
gape bright yellow, feet black.” 
In contradistinction to the preceding species this bird is 
only found in old jungle, is quieter and more retiring in its 
habits and goes about in smaller flocks. In altitude it ranges 
from about 3,000 to 7,000 feet, but is very rare at the higher 
elevations. 
Immature specimens have the grey of the upper and 
under surface less pure in tint, the feathers of the belly suffused 
with brownish. Fully adult birds have the bill entirely black, 
others have the gape more or less yellow. The sub-ocular 
black streak varies considerably throughout the series but 
is most in evidence in the more adult birds. 
113. Melanocichla lugubris (S. Miill.). 
Garrulax lugubris, Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 249; Snelle- 
man in Veth’s Midden- Sumatra Exped. Vogels, iv, p- 43 
(1884) ; Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 405, 
no. 328 (1889). 
Melanocichla lugubris (S. Mill.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. vil, p. 451 (1883); Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, 
pero? G:887)> Salvad: Ann. Mus. CiveiGen-) (@)) xi, p. 65 
(x89) ; Ogilvie Grant, Fascic. Malay Zool. 111, p. 84 (1905) ; 
Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. i, p. 197 (1909). 
Melanoctchla peninsularis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 274. 
a,b. 2%. Siolak Daras, Korinchi Valley, Sumatra, 
3,000 feet. r6th-24th March, 1g1q. [Nos. 
171, 378.] 
c,d. 16,1 ?%. Sandaran Agong, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 2,450 feet. Ist June, 1914. [Nos. 
1831, 1834.] 
“Tris brown, orbits and naked eu skin slaty blue, bill 
orange, feet sage green, claws brown 
In small flocks generally among fallen timber near the 
ground at the edge of jungle clearings; not found above 
4,000 feet in Korinchi. r 
These four specimens, typical of M. lugubris, compared 
with a large series of Peninsular specimens, show that Grant 
was correct in regarding the Malayan form as absolutely 
identical with that from Sumatra. The species fades with 
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