TIMELIIDiE. 
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77. Malacocercus griseus. 
Turdus griseus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 824. 
Malacocercus griseus, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 60. 
a £, — b f Madras ( A . Strickland) Sep. 1833. — c India 
{N. C. Strickland) 1838. 
The name M. striatus , considered by Strickland (Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. viii. p. 372) to be a synonym of M. griseus , belongs to the 
Ceylonese species, which is distinct from the Indian bird (cf. Blyth, 
Ibis, 1867, p. 300). 
78. Malacocercus somervillii. 
Timalia somervillii } Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 88. 
Malacocercus somervillii , Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 63. 
a India ( Stevens ) 1843. — b Madras (“ M. somervillii (ori- 
entalisy ’ T. G. Jerdon) 1845. 
79. Malacocercus malcolmi. 
Timalia malcolmi, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832. p. 88. 
Malacocercus malcolmi, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 64. 
a India ( Gardner ) 1844. — b S. India ( T . G. Jerdon “M. 
malcolmi ”) 1850. 
80. Malacocercus earlii. 
Malacocercus earlii , Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 369, (1844) : 
et xliii. extr. No. p. 118 : Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 68. 
a Arakan ( E . Blyth ) 1847. 
81. Malacocercus chatarrhoea. 
Cossyphus caudatus, Dumeril, fide Blyth. 
Chatarrhoea caudata, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 67. 
Timalia chatarcea, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1830-1, p. 118. 
a India “(M. caudatus (Dum.), Timalia chatarrhoea , Frankl., 
Megalurus isabelinus Sw.” E. Blyth) 1846. — b £ India ( W. J. E. 
Boys) 1847. — c S. India ( T \ G. Jerdon) 1850. 
The separation of this bird from the more slender-billed forms of 
Malacocercus such as M. earlii seems hardly justifiable. But should it 
prove distinct the right place for it seems to be in the genus Argya , 
Less. (Traite d’Orn. p. 402, (1831), an older name than Malacocercus , 
Swains., and one the larger genus should bear, were all these closely 
allied forms united together. 
