FASCICULI MALATENSES 83 



61. Malacopterum magnirostre, (Moore). 



Malacopteron magnirostris, Hartert, p. 563. 



$ ad. Bukit Besar, Nawngchilc. May and August. (Nos. 21, 350, 362) 



The Brown-headed Tree-Babbler has the iris red, chestnut, or dark 

 brown, and the bill and feet lead-colour. 



62. Malacopterum cinereum, Eyton 

 Malacopteron cinereus, Hartert, p. 564. 



$ ad. Sungkei, South Perak. 11th February. (No. 654) 



In this Tree-Babbler the iris is dark, the bill black, flesh-coloured at the 

 base of the lower mandible, and the feet flesh-coloured. 



63. Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinh. 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Hartert, p. 562. 



$ ad. Biserat, Jalor. 3rd July. (No. 246) 

 $ ad. Mabek, Jalor. 26th July. (No. 321) 



The Burmese Spotted Babbler has the iris hazel, the upper mandible 

 black, the lower yellowish, and the feet flesh. 



'Frequenting low bushes in dense secondary jungle, and very shy and 

 hard to flush. The bird bears a curiously close, but of course purely 

 superficial resemblance to Anthus rufulus, which it would be hard to explain 

 in any theory of mimicry.' 



64. Gampsorhynchus saturatior, Sharpe 

 Gampsorhynchus saturatior, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 273. 



Vix. ad. Semangko Pass, Selangor-Pahang border. November. (Butler Coll.) 



Three nearly adult female examples of this Shrike-Babbler with the 

 hinder part of the crown still mixed with brown feathers and with lateral 

 traces of the band across the chest, characteristic of youth, shew signs of 

 acquiring white shoulders, one or two white feathers being mixed among 

 the brown plumage. It seems to us very doubtful if Dr. Sharpe's G. saturatior 

 can be maintained as a distinct form, for though the type — a freshly- 

 moulted bird in perfect plumage — is darker than specimens of G. torquatus 

 in the British Museum collection, the birds before us do not appear separable. 



' I have recently obtained numerous specimens of this species in the 

 locality indicated above. They frequented the sides of a steep gully clothed 

 with dense bamboo, and appeared, morning and evening, in flocks of nine or 



