12. TEOCHALOPTERrM. 857 



Wing particoloured, the quills externally 

 chestnut ; back longitudinally streaked with 

 ■whitish like the head ; a white eyebrow ; 

 throat chestnut virgatum, p. 379, 



1. Trochalopterum affine. 



Garrulax affinis, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 950 (1843, ex Hodgs. 



MS.) ; id. op. cit. xv. p. 099 (1845) ; Gray. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 



pres. Hodqs. p. 83 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soe. p. 97 



(1849). 

 Crateropus affinis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 168 



(no. 768) ; id. in Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Pterocyclus affinis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 373 (1850) ; Horsf. S{ Moore, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 207; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, 



no 4183 (1869). 

 Trochalopteron affine, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 45 (1863) ; Goidd, B. Asia, 



part xxviii. (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, mottled on the back 

 ■with ashj'-olive tips to the feathers, which have also an obscure 

 dusky margin ; lower back olive-brown ; rump more rufous ; the 

 upper tail-coverts olive-brown, rufescent in the centre ; wing- 

 coverts reddish brown, the inner ones washed with olive ; the 

 greater coverts clearer rufous on the outer webs ; bastard-wing 

 feathers blue-grey ; primary-coverts black ; quills dusky, slaty 

 grey at the ends, the outer webs otherwise golden olive ; the 

 primaries lighter grey towards the end of the outer web ; tail- 

 feathers dull slaty grey, washed with golden olive on the outer 

 webs, especially towards the bases of the feathers ; crown of head 

 darker brown than the back ; the sides of the crown black, as are 

 also the lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts ; the hindermost of the 

 latter tipped with white, like the white spot which is conspicuous 

 behind the ear-coverts, this being succeeded by a dull white patch 

 on the sides of the neck, which is mottled by rufous centres to the 

 feathers ; on the cheeks a broad band of white ; chin and upper 

 throat black; the lower throat chestnut-brown; remainder of 

 under surface from fore neck downwards reddish brown, mottled 

 with ashy margins to the feathers ; the lower abdomen uniform 

 pale fulvous brown ; the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts dull 

 olivaceous brown ; under wiug-coverts and axillaries light reddish 

 brown, the lower series dusky like the under surface of rhe quills, 

 ■which are ashy along the margin of the inner web ; " bill black ; 

 legs reddish brown ; iris brown " (Jerdun). Totallength 8"8 inches, 

 culmcn 0-95, wing 3-9, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-5. 



The sexes are alike in plumage ; and a pair measure as follows : — 



Total 

 length. 



Culiuen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



in. 



<J . Native Sikhim 9-75 0-85 42 50 1-45 



$ . Native Sikhim 9-75 0-9 40 60 1-6 



