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Show 1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 439 ALCIPPE PERACENSIS, sp. n. "No. 32. cJ. Irides brown. This bird is common on the higher parts of the hills. It has a loud and musical song." By the absence of the white eyelids this new species ought to be allied to Alcippe phaocephala and A. cinerea ; but it has a very distinct black band running down the sides of the neck, thus showing its affinity to A. nipalensis. It is, in fact, closely allied to the latter species, but may be distinguished by the want of the white ring of feathers round the eye. Adult. General colour above warm brown from tbe lower mantle downwards ; the upper tail-coverts like the back; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally like the back ; the primaries edged with fulvous brown; tail-feathers brown, externally like the back ; crown of head, occiput, nape, hind neck, and upper mantle dark slaty grey, with a black streak extending from above the eye to the upper back ; lores ashy white; feathers round eye, ear-coverts, and sides of neck ashy grey, lighter on the cheeks, which incline to ashy white like the throat; fore neck, breast, and abdomen creamy white ; the sides of body and flanks light brown, darkening on the latter; thighs and under tail-coverts light brown; under wing-coverts and axillaries whity brown ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total length 5*4 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 2-5, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-75. MINLA SOROR, sp. n. (Plate XXXVIIi. fig. 1.) "No. 42. <$. Irides dark brown." Closely allied to M. castaneiceps, from which it differs in its much larger size, darker olive-brown coloration, and deep chestnut, not orange, edging to the quills. Adult. General colour above olive-brown, more distinctly olive on the lower back and rump; the mantle with narrow pale shaft-streaks, not very distinct; lesser and median coverts like the back ; external greater coverts black, the inner ones olive-brown; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; quills dusky blackish, externally olive-brown ; the primaries edged with chestnut towards the base; the outer primaries margined with white; upper tail-coverts like the back; tail-feathers ashy brown, externally olive-brown; crown of head and nape bright chestnut, the feathers mesially streaked with rufous shaft-lines, white towards the forehead ; lores and feathers round and below the eye sulphur-yellow; ear-coverts with a black streak along the upper part, surmounted by a streak of sulphur-yellow ; remainder of ear-coverts yellow streaked with black, and with a black stripe below, separating them from the cheeks, which, with the throat and under surface of body, are pale yellowish buff; the feathers of the cheeks and throat slightly mottled with brown tips; sides of body and flanks olive-brown; thighs olive-brown; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy yellowish |