102 TIMELIID^. 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-brown ; wing-coverts 

 brown, externally like the back, including the bastard-wing feathers 

 and primary-coverts ; quills brown, oxternaUy washed with olive ; 

 upper tail-coverts a little more ruddy olive ; tail-feathers dusky brown 

 with olive margins ; crown of the head a little lighter olive than 

 the back ; lores and feathers round the eye olive-yellowish ; an in- 

 distinct eyebrow of didl yellow ; ear-coverts olive-brown, with paler 

 shaft-streaks ; cheeks and under surface of the body lighter and 

 more yellowish olive, more distinctly dull olive on the sides of the 

 body and flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts duU olive ; under 

 wing-coverts light yellowish, more yellow on the edge of the wing ; 

 axillaries white, slightly washed with olive ; quiUs dusky below, 

 inner edges ashy whitish. Total length 5-6 inches, culraen 0-75, 

 wing 2-7, tail 2-3, tarsus 1-1. 



Nah, Pelew Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Pelew Islands. Mr. Cohen [C.]. 



5. BEBRORNIS. 



j 

 Wing of Behrornis roderioanus, to show proportions of primaries. 

 Range. Confined to the Seychelles and Rodriguez. 



1. Bebrornis rodericanus. 



Drynioeca ? rodericana, E. Newton, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 47, pi. i. fig. 3 ; 



id. Ibis, 1865, p. 150. 

 Drymoica rodericana, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2771 (1869). 

 Orthotomus? rodericanus, Hartl. Vog. Maclag. p. 107 (1877). 

 Bradypterus rodericanus, iS'/m/yje, i?e^j. Trans. Venus Exped., in Trans. 



Royal Soc. clxviii. p. 459 (1879) *. 

 Thamaomis rodericana, Milne-Edw. ^- Grandid. in Grandid. H. N. 



Madag. Ois. p. 335, note. 



Adult male. General colour above olivaceous brown, very little 

 paler on the upper tail-coverts ; lores pale yellow, extending above 

 the eye, but not forming a distinct eyebrow ; round the eye a ring of 

 pale-yeUow feathers; cheeks and sides of face pale yellow, the ear- 

 coverts olivaceous ; under surface of body pale yellow from chin to 



* In my notes on this bird (Trans. Roy. Soc. I. c.) a serious slip has opcurred 

 on p. 460, in the sentence "it cannot be associated with the Cisticolce, which 

 have ten tail-feathers." The latter birds have twelve tail-feathers. 



