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Malayan one is identical with venusta, Mull. This last, as figured 

 byTemminck (PL Col. 590) and re-described by M ii 1 1 e r 

 and Schlegel (Oversigt. Ind. Arch. Pitta, p. 15) seems to me, 

 however, to be quite a different bird. 



Fam. TURDIDuE. 



50. Geocichla modesta, E y t o n. 



Turdus modestus, E y t o n, Proc. Z. S. London, 1839, p. 103. 



$ . Olivaceous brown above, a little darker on the head, lores and 

 ear-coverts dusky, a narrow streak below the lower mandible, widen- 

 ing posteriorly, and the whole of the posterior throat cinereous ; 

 superciliary stripe, lower eyelid, mustachial stripe, chin and ante- 

 rior throat pure white ; front of breast including the sides and ex- 

 tending down to the vent pale ferruginous ; median portion of lower 

 breast, vent, and lower tail coverts pure white ; wing 5" ; tail 3 V'; 

 bill at front £", from gape 1 T \" ; tarsus 1 T V'. 



The female differs by having the cinereous color less pure and 

 much less developed on the posterior throat, the ferruginous of the 

 breast is also more mixed with ashy ; the size is the same as that 

 of the male. 



Specimens from the "Wellesley Province perfectly agree with 

 those from Malacca as well as with those from Arracan. The 

 species has been by different authors identified with Hors- 

 field's T. jav aniens, but on comparing the description of this, as 

 well as that of Drapiez rufulus, the Javanese bird appears to 

 me to be distinct, though I have no authentic specimens to compare. 

 I do not know Temminck's T. concolor, but until the uncer- 

 tainty about the correct definition of the allied insular species 

 has been satisfactorily settled, E y t o n ' s name should be reserved 

 for the Malayan bird. 



67. modesta also occurs at the Andamans and along the Arracan 

 coast, and may probably extend into Cachar and farther north 

 into Assam. 



Fam. TIM.ALIIDM. 



51. TURDINUS MACKODACTYLTTS, S t r i c k 1. 



Yide Strickland in Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1847, XIX, 

 p. 133, and B 1 y t h in J. A. S. B., XIII, p. 382. 



