204 SYLVIAD/E. 



chin and throat white lincated with black, the shafts 

 of the feathers of the latter black : belly dull testa- 

 ceous : quills brown, tinged with chesnut on the 

 edges : wings short : tail elongated, brown, obsoletely 

 fasciated with deeper brown : legs short ; hind claws 

 large. 



Sp. 2. Ti. gularis. 



Ti. supra fusca, remigibus rectricibusque saturatioribus ; subtus 



Jlavescens lateribus olivaceis ; guld pectorcque luleis, lincis sa- 



gitlatis notatis. 

 Timalia above brown, with the quills and tail-feathers darker ; 



beneath yellowish, with the sides olive : the throat and breast 



luteous marked with arrow-shaped lines. 

 Motacilla gularis. Linn. Trans. {Rajfles) v. xiii. /;. 312. 



Inhabits Java and Sumatra. Length five inches : 

 brown above, yellowish beneath : head, wiugs, and 

 tail ferruginous : throat and breast marked with lon- 

 gitudinal black spots. 



Sp. 3. Ti ? thoracica. 



Pitta thoracica. Ternm. PI. Col. 76. — Java. 



FAMILY IV.— SYLVIADiE. 



Rostrum rectum, gracile, subulatum, basi plerumque depressum, 

 vel compression, apicc paulo recurvation : corpus gracile: pedes 

 debiles, tetradactyli : digitis tribus anticis, uno postico. 



The Sylviadae usually have the beak straight, slender, subulated, 

 the base generally depressed, sometimes compressed, with the 

 tip a little recurved : the body is slender : the fogs weak, fur- 

 nished with four toes, placed three before and one behind. 



Like the Merulidae, these birds have hitherto been 

 so sadly neglected that it is utterly impossible to place 



