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ship to each other, as do Serilophus lunatus (G-ould), of Burma, and 

 S. rubropygius, (Hodgson), of the S. E. Himalaya. The Tenasserim 

 Pteruthius was " found at an elevation of 3,500 to 4,500 ft." 



Garrulax strepitans, Tickell, n. s. One of the G. Belangeri and 

 G. leucolophos series. Crown and occiput rich tawny-brown ; the 

 nareal plumes, lores, cheeks and chin, blackish, passing into dull tawny- 

 brown on the throat and front of the neck, and to a more ferruginous 

 brown on the ear-coverts posteriorly : a large patch of white on the sides 

 of the neck, pure and strongly contrasting with the dark crown and 

 ear-coverts, but shading off gradually to ashy on the middle of the nape, 

 the back, and sides of the breast : the ashy of the back shades off to 

 greenish olive-brown on the rump, wings, and flanks, also on the vent, 

 lower tail-coverts, and tibial plumes ; passing on to blackish on the tail : 

 breast and middle of the belly ashy, the pectoral feathers tawny -brown 

 anteriorly. Bill and feet black. Length about 11 in. ; of wing 4j in. ; 

 and tail 5 in., its outermost feather 1 in. shorter : bill to forehead 1£ in. ; 

 and tarse 1| in. 



" Common from 3,000 to 5,000 ft., and pre-eminently noisy." 



G. melanostigma, nobis, n. s. Affined to G. erythrocephalus and 

 G. ruficapillus. Entire crown very bright rufo-ferruginous, contract- 

 ing along the occiput : small frontal plumes, lores, and chin, black : sin- 

 cipita and cheeks ashy, with black mesial streaks, more developed on 

 the ear-coverts : general hue greenish olive-brown, having a tawny tinge 

 on the nape, sides of neck, breast and middle of the belly, the breast 

 being paler : throat and front of the neck rufo-ferruginous, shading into 

 the duller hue. of the breast: wings and tail bright greenish golden- 

 yellow ; the coverts of the primaries deep black, forming a conspicuous 

 patch, and the next range of coverts bright ferruginous inclining to 

 cinnamon-colour : secondaries and tertiaries conspicuously tipped with 

 blackish. Bill black ; and legs brown. Length about 101 in. ; of wing 

 4^- in. ; and tail A\ in., its outermost feathers \\ in. shorter : bill to 

 forehead 1 in. or nearly so ; and tarse \\ in. 



" Common, and found with the last; but ranging higher still, up to 

 the vast wall-like crags of Moole-it ; 7,500 ft. Sexes alike."* 



* The extraordinary development of this genus demands a new Conspectus of 

 the species, for which the Society's museum affords better materials than perhaps 

 any other. We have vainly tried to arrange them satisfactorily into minor groups ; 

 and cannot follow Mr, G. R. Gray in adopting the three headings of Garrulax, 

 TROCHALorTERON, and Pterocyclos (the last pre-occupied in Malacology). The 

 species not in the Society's museum are here distinguished by an asterisk. 



