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61. Malacopterum magnirostre, (Moore). 
Malacopteron magnirostris, Harter /, p. 563. 
,fad. Bukit Besar, Nawngchik. May and August. (Nos, 21, 330, 362) 
The Brown-headed Tree-Babbler has the iris red, chestnut, or dark 
brown, and the bill and feet lead-colour. 
62. Malacopterum clnereum, Eyion 
Malacopteron cine reus, Hartert , p. 564. 
$ ad, Sungkei, South Perak. 1 ith 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. Pcllorncum subochraccum, Svrfnh. 
Pellorneum subochraccum, 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 Ambus rufulus , which it would be hard to explain 
in any theory of mimicry.’ 
64. Qampsorhynchus saturation Sharpe 
Gampsorhynchus saturation, 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 
