TIMALIID/E. 
Genus MELAN 0 C 1 CHLA Sharpe. 
Melanocichla lugubris (S. Mull.). Black Babbling-Thrush, 
Melanocichla lugubris lugubris (S. Mull.). 
Ianthocinda lugubris Sal. Muller, Tijd. Nat. Ges. Phys. 1835* p. 
344, pi. 5, fig. 2 : West Sumatra. 
Melanocichla feninsularis Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1888, p. 27 A : Mt. 
Batu Puteh, Perak, Malay States. 
Distr. — Malay States. 
Sumatra. 
Melanocichla lugubris calvus (Sharpe). 1 
AUocotops calvus Sharpe, Ibis, 18SS, p. 389: Mt. Kinabalu, North 
Borneo. 
Distr. —Borneo. 
Genus RHINOCICHLA Sharpe. 
Rhinocichla mitrata (S. Miill.). Chestnut-capped Babbling-Thrush. 
Rhinocichla mitrata mitrata (S. Miill.). 
Timalia mitrata Sal. Muller, Tijd. Nat. Ges. Phys. 1835, p. 345, 
pl* 5 > fig- 3 : Sumatra. 
Garrulax vittatns de Filippi, Mus. Mediol. Anim, Vert, 1847, p. 3t : 
Sumatra 
Distr . — Sumatra. 
Rhinocichla mitrata major Rob. and Kloss. 
Rhinocichla mitrata major Robinson and Kloss, Bull. Brit. Ora. 
Cl. xl, 1919, p. 16 : Mt. Ijau, Larut Hills, Perak. 
Distr, — Malay States. 
Rhinocichla mitrata treacheri (Sharpe). 
Ianthocinda treacheri Sharpe, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1879, p. 348, pl. 23 : 
Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo. 
Disfr. — Borneo (north). 
Rhinocichla mitrata damnata Harr, and Hartley. 
Rhinocichla mitrata damnata Harrisson and Hartley, Bull. Brit. 
Ora. CL liv, 1934, p. 154 : Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, Borneo. 
Distr. — Borneo (part). 
1 The genus AUocotops Sharpe was made for calvus and the bird is 
often quoted as the monotypic representative of a highly specialized Bornean 
genus. The above action in reducing it to the rank of a subspecies may 
therefore be regarded as drastic, but I think it is the right one. 1 have 
noted incipient baldness in lugubris from the Malay Peninsula, 
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