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paler ; lores, a streak over and behind the eyes, with the ear-coverts, 
ashy white ; throat, belly, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; breast 
mingled white and ash ; wings rufescent brown, the remiges mar- 
gined brighter; upper tail-coverts and tail deep rufo-ferruginous, 
darker towards the tip ; bill horny above, pale below ; feet greenish. 
Length nearly 7-|-in., of wing 3 in., tail 3^ in., bill to frontal plumes 
i in., to gape | in., and tarse if in. 
Distinguished from A. affinis and A. alhogularis by its larger size, 
longer wings and tail. 
667. ALCIPPE MAGNIE0STBI8, Moore. 
Alcippe magnirostris, Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
A. Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
A. magnirostris. Upper parts olive-brown, darkest on the crown, 
palest on the nape, and tinged with rufous on the rump ; the feathers 
of the crown spatulate, and have a perceptibly darker shaft and mar- 
gin ; lores and streak over, but not beyond, the eye whitish ; base 
of lower mandible, down the sides of the throat, with the tips of 
some of the feathers of the cheek, dark ash ; throat, belly, vent, 
and under tail-coverts white ; sides of the breast ashy-olive, the 
middle more ashy ; wings rufescent brown ; upper tail-coverts and 
tail deep rufo-ferruginous ; bill horny above, paler below ; feet 
greenish. Length Bin., of wing 3 in., tail 2| in., bill to frontal 
plumes -^-Q in., to gape -5^ in., tarse in. 
May be known from the other described species by its longer and 
more robust bill, and by the dark ash streak down the sides of the 
throat. 
668. ALCIPPE STRIATA, Blyth. 
Timalia striata, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. HI. p. 793 (1842). 
Alcippe striata, Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 149. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 260. 
Macronus striatus, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 1. p. 210. 
? Myiothera epilepidota, Temm., Bl. Col. 448, /. 2. 
A. B. c. Malacca. Presented by Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
A. striata. " Head and neck above black, or rather brown-black ; 
the feathers of the mesial line white about the shaft, forming a streak 
of this colour along the middle of the head, besides which are two 
slight lateral streaks not observable in every specimen, in addition 
to a superciliary line of the same ; on the nape, the white centres of 
the feathers broader, and are more irregularly disposed, while on the 
