1918.] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Kross: Birds. 187 
The species is distinguished at a glance from the North 
Bornean form, R. treacheri, Sharpe, by having the ear coverts 
grey, not chestnut, the chin blackish, not chestnut, and by the 
absence of streaks on the fore-neck. 
115. Turdinus rufipectus, Salvadori. 
Turdinus rufipectus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, p. 
224 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vil, p. 549 (1883) ; 
Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. xvii, p. 69 (1895). 
a-b. 16, 1%. Siolak Daras, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 3,000 feet. 24th-25th March, 1914. 
[Nos. 395, 405-] 
c-d’. 146, 14%. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, 
Sumatra, 4,700 feet. 30th March-26th 
April, 1914. [Nos. 502, 512-5, 537, 545, 
599-601, 628-9, 668, 703-7, 728-9, 753, 774, 
843, 873-4, 926, 1023, 1168.] 
e'-o'. 16,2. Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, 7,300 feet. 
Ist-toth May, 1914. [Nos. 1329, 1479, 
1482. | 
hk’. 1&6. Barong Bharu, Barisan Range, West 
Sumatra, Lat. 2° S. 4,000 feet. June 6th, 
1914. [No. 1899.] 
“Tris red, reddish chestnut, chestnut or rich brown; bill, 
upper mandible black, lower slaty; feet brownish.” 
A strictly terrestrial species confined to heavy jungle and 
therefore, perhaps, scarce at the lower levels, exceedingly 
abundant at Sungei Kumbang between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, 
but thinning out rapidly above that level and very scarce at 
our camp at 7,300 feet, above which it was not found. 
116. Malacocincla sepiaria (Horsf.). 
Turdinus sepiaria (Horsf.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
vii, p- 544 (1883); id. P.Z.S. 1888, p. 275; Robinson, Journ. 
Fed. Malay States Mus. i, p. 198 (1909). 
Malacocincla sepiaria, Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. xvii, 
p. 81 (1895); Finsch, op. cit. xxii, p. 219 (1901). 
Turdinus sepiarius var. minor, Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 
p- 210 (1884). 
Malacocincla minor, Buttikofer, loc. cit. p. 81. 
Bessetheva pyca Bote; Vorderman op. cit. p. 405, no. 321. 
G0. 218.2 2. Siolak Daras, Korinchi Valley, Su- 
matra, 3,000 feet. 18th-z6th March. [Nos. 
228, 379-80, 440.] 
“Tris red, bill slate, culmen black, feet pale slate.” 
A skulking bird, found among bushes or the lower branches 
of trees in old forest. 
Part Il: Vertebrata. 
