\rAI,AYA"N ORNITHOLOGY. 9 



My specimens are all from Malacca and Moar districts. 



Pitta cucttllata (HartL). 



During January, 1877, I obtained one of these Ground-Thrushes, 

 an adult, near Kuala Kangsa, Perak, 



Pitta boschi (Mull.). 



During January, 1S77, I got a pair of these beautiful birds 

 near Kuala Kangsa, Perak. 



MlXOENIS GFLARIS (Raffl.). 



" Singapore. 5th Aug., 1879. Shot a few small birds among 

 the trees bordering the Bukit Timah Road, the first being a 

 specimen of M. Gularis, one of a party of eight or nine which 

 were flitting along a hedge-row." 



I shot another close to our Mess at Tanglin. 



Turdtts ruficollis (Pallas.). 



Mr. Davison showed me a specimen of this Thrush which had 

 been shot at Singapore. Personally I did not meet with it in 

 Malaya, but shot one in North China, where, I believe, it is by 

 no means a rare bird. 



The following note relates to this bird : — 



" 3rd Dec, 1879, near Soo-chow, two days' journey from 

 Shanghae. To-day, while Pheasant-shooting, 1 put up a Thursh 

 of a kind I have not met with before, so shot it. I think it is 

 undoubtedly a female of Plcmesticus ruficollis, the Red-tailed 

 Thrush of Northern Asia. It was by itself. Length 9 inches : 

 irides dark brown ; bill yellow at base and gape, dusky at tip ; 

 legs brown ; upper parts dull brown, darkest on the tail and 

 wings ; outer edges of wing-coverts whitish : inner webs of tail- 

 feathers (except two central ones), beneath the wings, the chin, 

 throat, breast, and flanks rufous ; throat and breast covered with 

 dusky spots ; under tail-coverts rufous, with white margins ; 

 streak over eye pale rufous ; ear-coverts and the head dull brown."' 



Cyinoderma erythropterum (Blyth.). 



During May. 1877, near Kuala Kangsa, Perak, I shot two 

 small birds which were creeping about on the ground in a patch 

 of thick jungle. At the time I did not know what to make of 

 them, but afterwards identified them as of this species. 



Top of head chestnut; irides red-brown; white superciliary 



