374 TIMELIID.^, 



oa the ramp and upper tail-coverts ; head slaty blackish ; hind neck 

 ashy grey, shading off on the mantle ; wing-coverts olive-brown 

 like the back ; primary-coverts dusky brown, edged with olive ; 

 quills dark brown, externally deeper olive-brown, the inner secon- 

 daries entirely of the latter colour ; tail-feathers rather deeper-coloured 

 and more ruddy olive-brown ; lores black, as also a patch behind the 

 eyes ; over the latter a broad superciliary streak of white, com- 

 mencing at the base of the bill and extending a little behind the 

 eye, being continued above the ear-coverts in a streak of light ashy 

 grej' ; eyelid white above and below, black before and behind ; fore 

 part of cheeks dusky ashy grey : ear-coverts lioary whitish washed 

 with ashy ; chin and upper throat black ; remainder of throat hoary 

 whitish, strongly washed with ashy ; fore neck and chest ashj' grey, 

 forming a band ; remainder of under surface of body orange-rufous, 

 the sides of the body and flanks, thighs, and i;nder tail-coverts olive- 

 brown ; axillaries olive-brown ; under wing-coverts light orange- 

 buff washed with olive, the lower series dusky ash-brown ; quills 

 dull brown below, pale rufous along the inner web ; " bill black ; 

 legs hoary ; iris red " (Jerdon). Total length 8 inches, culmen 0'8, 

 wing 3.3, tail 3*65, tarsus 1"3. 

 Ifah. Wynaad district. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Brahmagherries, Coorg, A. O. Hume, Esq. [P.]. 



April 18, 1881 (Tf. 

 Davison). 



20. Troclialopterum fairbanki. 



Trochalopteronfairbanld. Blanf. J. A. S. Bene/, xxxviii. pp. 17.5,177, 

 pi. 17 (18G9) : Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 30(3; Hume, Str.F. 1875, p. 413; 

 Fairb. Sfr. F. 1877, p. 404 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Pterocyclus faii-bauki, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no. 4185 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown ; wing-coverts like the 

 back; bastard- wing feathers and primarj^-coverts dusky brown, 

 narrowly edged with olive-brown ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 olive-brown, the secondaries almost entii'ely of the latter colour ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with olive-brown ; crown of head brown, 

 the sides of the crown darker ; hind neck washed with ashy grey ; 

 over the eye a broad band of white ; lores dusky brown ; eyelid 

 white ; ear- coverts and sides of face dull ashy, blackish along their 

 upper margin ; sides of neck bluish grey ; cheeks ashy, clearer than 

 the ear-coverts ; throat dull white ; fore neck and chest ashy grey, 

 paler in the centre, with dusky stripes down the feathers; remainder 

 of linder surface orange-rufous, paler in the centre of the body ; 

 thighs fulvous-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries orange- 

 rufous ; quiUs dusky below, pale ashy brown along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 9 inches, culmen O'So, wing 3"45, tail 

 3*7, tarsus 1'4. 



There is no difference in the colouring of the sexes. A pair in 

 Capt. AYardlaw Ramsay's collection measure as follows : — 



