134 BIRDS FROM PERAK. 
‘streaks of white, narrower on the latter; sides of body and 
flanks uniform reddish brown; thighs and under tail-coverts 
also reddish brown; under wing coverts and axillaries dark 
ashy ; quills below dusky blackish, more ashy along the inner 
edge. Total length 1o inches, culmen 1.7, wing 4.1, tail 3.95, 
tarsus 1.55. 
Adult male.—Similar to the female, but not so strongly 
streaked with white down the side of the neck. Total length 
10 inches, culmen 1.65, wing 4.0, tarsus 1°6. 
I have deseaines the female, as ‘the male is moultine and has 
not got its perfect tail. 
Corythocichla leucosticta, sp. n. 
“No. 37-—d ¢. Irides crimson. Frequents the under- 
growth usually in pairs, and has an unusually loud song for 
such a small bird.” 
Compared with C. striata the present species is more. ashy 
both above and below, and is easily distinguished by the white 
dots on the coverts and quills, these being fulvous in C. strzata. 
The throat is distinctly mottled with blackish (not ashy) 
centres to the feathers. 
Adult male.—General colour above ashy brown, with a 
slight ruddy tinge; all the feathers edged with black, produc- 
ing a mottled appearance; rump not so distinctly mottled; 
wing-coverts like the back, and edged with black in the same 
manner, each having a tiny white spot at the tip; bastard- 
wing, primary coverts, and quills blackish, externally olive 
brown, a little more ruddy on the latter; all the quills with a 
tiny white spot at the end, larger on the inner secondaries; 
tail feathers dark brown; externally reddish brown; head like 
the back, and mottled with black edgings in the same manner; 
lores and a distinct broad eyebrow ashy grey; sides of face 
dull ashy, shaded with brown on the ear-coverts, and having 
a faint moustache of whitish near the gape; cheeks uniform 
ashy grey; throat white, mottled with dark ashy-grey centres 
to the feathers; remainder of under surface of body dull 
ashy brown, with dusky centres; the sides of the body brown- 
er, becoming more rufous on the flanks and under tail-coverts 
axillaries and under wing-coverts olive-brown. Total length 
5.4 inches, culmen 0.7, wing 2.5, tail 1.8, tarsus 0.95. 
