BIRDS. 



[A ground bird of very skulking habits, keeping to the thickest 

 undergrowth in the gullies, and generally to be met with in pairs. 



This species is widely distributed throughout the higher mountains 

 of the Federated Malay States, from the north of Perak to the south 

 of Selangor, but apparently does not extend further. 



The female seems, as a rule, to have the middle of the abdomen 

 and the under tail-coverts rather more rufous than the male, but the 

 difference is not very well marked. — H. C. R.] 



57. ANUEOPSIS MALACCENSIS (Hartl.). 

 Anuropsis malaccensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., vii., p. 588 

 (1883). 



a. /. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. 1st August, 1905. (No. 465). 

 Iris, hazel ; bill, pale plumbeous ; feet, pinkish flesh-colour. 



58. MALACOPTERUM ALBIGULARE (Blytu). 



Malacopteron albogularies (!), Hartert, Nov. ZooL, ix., p. 564 

 (1902). 



a. w. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. 3rd August, 1905. (No. 486). 

 Iris, hazel ; bill, black ; feet, dull lead-colour. 



59. MALACOPTERUM MAGNIROSTRE (Moore). 



Turdinus magnirostris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., vii., p. 547 

 (1883). 



Malacopterum magnirostre, Grant, p. 83. 



a., b. /. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. 11th August, 1905. (Nos. 523, 

 524). 



60. DRYMOCATAPHUS NIGRICAPITATUS (Eyton). 



Drymocataphus nigricapitatus, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 275. 

 a. m. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. August, 1905. (No. 510). 

 h.f. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. (No. 644). 



<il. TURDINUS ABBOTTI (Blytu). 

 Turdinus abbotti olivaceum (Strickl.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zoo!., ix., 

 p. 562 (1902). 



a.-d. m.,f. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. September, 1905. (Nos. 

 622, 627, 628, 646). 



I cannot agree with Dr. Hartert in regarding the Malayan form of 

 this species (T. olivaceum) as separable from typical T. abbotti. Among 

 the Malayan birds both richly coloured and pale forms are found, quite 

 irrespective of locality ; the former having the underparts quite as 

 rufous as the brightest specimens from Assam, etc. The British 

 Museum possesses a very large series of this bird from all parts of its 

 range. 



62. RHINOCICHLA MITRATA (S. Mull). 



Rhinocichla mitrata, Grant, p. 84. 



a. m. Gunong Ulu Kali. 4,800-5,800 ft. 30th January, 1906. 



