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about 7| in. ; of wing 3 to 3? in. ; and tail 3 to 3| in. ; its outermost 

 feather f in. shorter: bill to gape 1 in.; and tarse the same. Colour 

 deep non-rufous olive-brown, the feathers of the head, neck, and back, 

 pale-shafted, and margined with black ; a pure white speck at the tip of 

 the smallest tertiary, and sometimes to that of the next, and probably 

 of more: throat pure white, marked with dark olive, but differently 

 from that of T. maceodactylus ; in the latter species the feathers 

 surrounding the throat are more or less broadly black-tipped ; but in T. 

 ceispifeons they are black medially, with white outer edge and extreme 

 tip, and the dark markings are less abruptly denned and do not sur- 

 round and circumscribe the throat as in the other species: lower-parts 

 tinged with ashy, mingled with whitish along the middle. Bill dusky, 

 pale underneath and at tip ; and legs dark olive-brown. " Not uncommon, 

 but very local, and confined entirely to deep thickets amongst rocks." 



T. beevicaudatus, nobis, n. s. A third and more aberrant species, 

 remarkable for its short tail, in which respect the Malayan T. maceo- 

 dactylus, (Strickland), is intermediate to this and the preceding species. 

 Size comparatively small. Length about b\ in., of which tail If in. ; its 

 outermost feather f in. shorter than the medial : closed wing 2| in. ; 

 more rounded than in the two other species, having the sixth to the tenth 

 primaries sub-equal and longest : bill to gape \% in. : tarse f in. Colour 

 of the upper-parts much as in the preceding species, but somewhat more 

 rufescent, and the feathers still softer and less elongated ; of a rich olive- 

 brown, black-bordered, and paler towards shaft ; at forehead inclining to 

 ashy, and scarcely stiffened : plumage over the rump discomposed, and 

 excessively dense and copious : throat mingled dusky and whitish ; and 

 rest of the lower-parts weak ferruginous, deepest on middle of belly, vent 



Can this be the adult female of H. concretus, which has the head and crest 

 plain ashy ? Whereas the young female has these parts fulvous, and the young 

 male has the crown fulvous and the lengthened occipital crest dull crimson ; the 

 adult male having a crimson crown and ashy crest ! The beautiful Macropteryx 

 comatus is a novelty, as inhabiting the Malayan peninsula : also Pericrocotus 

 miniatus, Tern, (if rightly identified, — we have seen the Indian Per. speciosus 

 from Pinang!) ; " Ixos analis, Horsf." is probably Pycnonotus crocorrhous, 

 Strickland. Mr. Wallace's Muscipeta paradisea is doubtless our Tchitrea 

 affinis, which it quite distinct from Tch. paradisi (vera) of India : and his 

 Phyllornis icterocephalus, Tern., is doubtless Ph. cochinchinensis, Lath., 

 apud nos. — Buceros nigrirostris, nobis, proves (from this gentleman's observation) 

 to be the female of B. malayanus, Raffles (v. anthracinm, Tern.) ; of which Dr. 

 S. Muller considered it to be a permanent variety. 



