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SYLVIAD^. 



chin and throat white lineated with black, the shafts 

 of the feathers of the latter black : belly dull testa- 

 ceous : quills brown, tinged with chesnut on the 

 edges : wings short : tail elongated, brown, obsoletely 

 fasciated with deeper brown : legs short ; hind claws 

 large. . 



Sp. 2. Ti. gularis. 



Ti. supra fusca, remigibiis rectricibusque saturatiorihiis ; subhis 

 Jiavescens lateribus olivaceis ; guld pectoreque luteis, lineis sa- 

 gittatis notatis. 



Timalia above brown, with the quills and tail-feathers darker j 

 beneath yellowish, with the sides olive : the throat and breast 

 luteous marked with arrow-shaped lines. 



Motacilla gularis. Linn. Trans. {Raffles) v. xiii. 312. 



Inhabits Java and Sumatra. Length five inches : 

 brown above, yellowish beneath : head, wings, and 

 tail ferruginous : throat and breast marked with lon- 

 gitudinal black spots. 



Sp. 3. Ti thoracica. 



Pitta thoracica. l^emm. PL Col. — Java. 



FAMILY IV.— SYLVIAD^. 



Rostrum rectum, gracile, subulatiim, bast plerumque depressum, 

 vel compressum, apice paulo recurvatum : cori)\is gracile : pedes 

 debiles, tetradactyli : digitis tribus anticis, uno postico. 



The Sylviadae usually have the beak straight, slender, subulated, 

 the base generally depressed, sometimes compressed, with the 

 tip a little recurved : the body is slender : the legs weak, fur- 

 nished with four toes J placed three before and one behind. 



Like the Merulidae, these birds have hitherto been 

 so sadly neglected that it is utterly impossible to place 



