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eye white-centred : lower-parts white, slightly tinged with brown, more 

 especially on the sides of the breast. Bill and feet pale, the former 

 darker above. Also from Malacca. 



These two species are distinguished by a much compressed bill, of 

 moderate length, and strongly and abruptly hooked at tip ; and by the 

 peculiar rigid feathers of the forehead and vertex ; M. majus being 

 moreover stronger and more robustly made, as well as longer, than M. 

 magnum, which latter bird has been rather unlucky in its appellation. 



Trichastoma, nobis, XI, 795. This has been referred to Mala- 

 copteron, but may now be restored, and I think Malacocincla, nobis, 

 XIV, 600, might be included in it. The bill is more elongated, less 

 compressed, and less abruptly curved at tip, than in the preceding 

 section ; widening considerably at base, and pretty regularly in the 

 first species, while in the second it is narrower and more slender, and 

 in the third (which must be regarded as aberrant) it is deep and 

 much compressed. The species are Tr.ferruginosum, nobis, XIII, 383, 

 — Tr. rostratum, nobis, XI, 795, — and Tr. Abhotti, nobis, XIV, 600. 

 The two former are from Malacca, and the third was described from 

 Arracan, whence the Society has received several specimens altogether 

 similar ; but it has now also one from Malacca, which differs in being 

 of a much more olivaceous and less rufous tinge above, with also less 

 rufous below, and that of the upper tail-coverts is not so deep.* 



Next follows Alcippe, nobis, XIII, 384 : of which the following 

 species are before me. — I, A. atriceps (Brachypteryx at riceps, J erdon) ; 

 — 2, A. affinis, nobis, XIII, 384; — 3, A. cinerea, (Eyton), ibid; — 4, 

 A. poiocephala (Timalia poiocephala, Jerdon) ; — 5, A. sepiaria (Hors- 

 field) ; — 6, A. nipalensis, (Siva nipalensis, Hodgson), of which A. Phay- 

 rei, nobis, XIV, 601, seems to be merely an individual variety. Nos. 

 3, 4, 5, and 6, respectively from Malacca, S. India, Java, and Nepal and 

 Arracan, are very nearly allied ; especially the two last, which present 

 the same dark lines proceeding from over the eye down the nape- 

 Very close to the above, and scarcely separable from them, ranges 

 my Setaria albogularis, XIII, 385 ; and if Brachypteryx nigrocapitata 



* Brachypteryx bicolor of Lesson, vide XIII, 385, is nol improbably either Tr, In > u 

 ginosum or Tr. rostratum. 



