12. TROCHALOPTERUM. 375 



length. ^"l'"P"- ^ing- Tail. Tarsus. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



a. S • Palani hills (Fairbank) . . 87 0-85 3-5 37 1-35 



b. 2 • Palani hills (Fmrbank) . . 87 0-85 3-45 37 1-3 



Young. Similar to the adults, but duller in colour and having the 

 head of the same colour as the hack, the upper tail-coverts rufous- 

 brown, the white eyebrow tinged with rufous above, the ear-coverts 

 light rufescent brown ; breast entirely ashy, with no appearance of 

 dusky streaks. (JIus. R. G. Wardlaw liamsay.) 



Hah. Palani hills in Southern India. 



a. Ad. sk. Palani hiWs {Fairhanh) . W. T. Elanford, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species. Spec. fig. I. c.) 



21 . Trochalopterum meridionale, 



Trochalopteron fairbanki (non Blanf.), Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 36. 

 Trochalopteron meridionale, Blanf ! J. A. S. Benq. xlix p 142 ( 1880) • 

 Hume, Str. F. 1880, p. 500. " v ." 



Adult male (tj-pe of species). General colour above slaty grey 

 washed with olive, the lower back and rump being perceptibly more 

 olive : wing-coverts like the back, but also washed with olive ; quills 

 dusky brown, externally ashy grey with a tinge of olive; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, washed with olive on the outer webs and 

 barred with dusky under certain lights : crown of head slaty brown, 

 darker than the back ; lores sooty blackish, relieved by a spot of 

 white just in front of the eye ; ear-coverts and sides of face light 

 slaty brown, the sides of the neck more ashy ; under surface of body 

 dull white, the fore neck washed with ashy ; the throat and breast 

 streaked with ashy-brown centres to the feathers ; sides of breast 

 and flanks bright chestnut ; thighs olive-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 darker chestnut; under wing- coverts and axillaries light rufous, 

 the lower scries of the coverts ashy brown like the under surface of 

 the quills, which are pale rufous along the margin of the inner web. 

 Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 3-5, tail 3-6, tarsus 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7-5 inches 

 culmen 0-9, wing 3-25, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-25. 



Hah. Highlands of Travancore, where it is found at an elevation 

 of 4000 feet. 



«. <S ad. sk. ^Tinevelley boundary, F. W. Boiu-dillon, Esq. [C.]. 

 Travancore, 4000 (Type of species.) 



feet, April 3, 1880. 



b. $ ad. sk. Travancore. F. W. Boiu-dillon, Esq. [C.l 



c. Ad. sk. Travancore. F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. [C] 



