1847.] or Little Known Species of Birds. 155 



hind-toe large, being twice the size of the middle front-claw. Wings 

 much bowed and rounded, the first primary reaching to but half the 

 length of the fifth, which equals the two next, and a little exceeds the 

 fourth and eighth. The tail short and weak, its feathers slender and 

 flexible, with soft tips a little pointed. Plumage lax, being excessively 

 so and very copious over the rump. 



R. rnalacoptilus, nobis. Length five inches, of which the tail mea- 

 sures one and a quarter, and the bill to forehead an inch ; wing two 

 inches and a quarter; tarse seven-eighths; and long hind-claw about 

 three-eighths. Colour of the upper-parts deep brown, with pale shafts 

 to the feathers, forming a central streak on those of the nape and 

 back ; scapularies and interscapularies black on the inner web, and 

 brown on the outer ; the mass of loose feathers on the rump brown, 

 with light shafts more or less apparent; and the tail and large wing- 

 feathers uniform deep brown with a slight ruddy tinge: under-parts 

 pale brown, lightest on the middle of the breast and on the throat, 

 and becoming whitish towards the chin ; a black streak borders each 

 side of the throat, which has also a few dusky specks ; and the breast- 

 feathers generally are margined, the lateral more broadly, with olive, 

 which colour prevails and is tinged with ferruginous on the flanks ; the 

 lower tail-coverts being dark ferruginous. Bill dark horny, mingled 

 with whitish ; and legs light brown. From Darjeeling. 



Another very distinct genus of the great Myiotherine series appears 

 to me to exist in 



Enicurus, Temminck. At least eight species may be enumerated, 

 four pertaining to the Malayan fauna, and four to that of India.* 



1. E. riificapillus, Tem. : Turdus avensis (?), Gray, figured from 

 a bad native drawing in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom,' VI, 530. Inhabits 

 Java. This fine species, while pre-eminently typical of its group, 

 strongly exhibits in the form of its bill, and in the rufous colouring of 

 its head and nape, the Myiotherine affinities of the genus, upon compar- 

 ing it with such birds as the Formicarius cayennensis (Bodd.), v. 

 Myiocincla colma, Swainson, &c. The bill is considerably longer and 

 more slender than in the figure cited in Griffith's ' Animal Kingdom,' 



* Motacilla maderaspatana fnec madaraspatensis) of Latham is probably a 

 ninth species. It is remarkable that none has hitherto been observed in the south of 

 India. 



