1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 315 



head, especially on the top and at the sides of the middle neck, 

 wings and tail equally bright and exactly similarly colored as in $ , 

 and the same is also the case with the breast, vent and under tail 

 coverts ; chin and throat uniform bluish green, with a blue elongated 

 spot at the base of the lower mandible ; bill and legs brown ; the 

 measurements are the same, as in the $, but the bill a little 

 smaller and less stout. 



Another pair shot near Malacca - exactly agrees in colouring with 

 the above. 



Fam. BRACHYPODIDJE. 



61. Criniger gulaeis, Horsf. 



Ixos phosocephalus, Hart 1 a u b and Pycnon. rufocaudatus, E y to n, 

 vide Strickland in Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1847, XIX, p. 130. 



Although several descriptions have been published of this bird, 

 they are hardly sufficient to recognize the species. Head above 

 blackish ashy, each feather being narrowly margined paler, 

 rest of upper plumage olivaceous green, yellowish green on the 

 rump, dusky brown on the inner webs of the wing feathers, 

 rufescent greenish brown on the upper tail coverts and tail ; lores 

 whitish, sides of head ashy ; chin and throat pure white ; breast, 

 vent and lower tail coverts bright yellow, sides of breast and vent 

 olive green ; lower wing coverts yellow ; inner webs of wing 

 feathers, especially near their bases, silky white ; bill well curved, 

 slightly hooked at tip, above dark leaden brown with white edges, 

 below a little more whitish ; 6 very strong black rictal bristles on 

 each side, the most anterior the smallest, the two median ones al- 

 most reach to the tip of the bill when laid forward ; narine bristles 

 thin and small ; wing 3^-" ; tail 3£" ; bill at front § ", from gape %" ; 

 tarsus very nearly f " ; middle toe %" ; hind toe J", the claw of the 

 latter is very little stronger than that of the middle toe ; the two 

 outer toes are equal, and each as long as the hind toe. The bill is 

 rather broad at the base, the rictal bristles comparatively very 

 strong, the feet rather weak, shewing that the whole habitus of the 

 bird is that of a Criniyer, as pointed out by Strickland. With 

 the exception of the characteristic shortness of the tarsi, the species 



