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25. Trochalopterum imbricatum. 



Gan-ulax imbricatus, Bhith, J. A. S. Bemj. xii. p. 951 (1843), xiv. 



p. 599 (1845) ; id. Cat. B. Miis. As. Soc. p. 98 (1849). 

 Pterocj'clus imbricatus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 226 (1846) ; Bp. Comp. 



i. p. ;372 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 208 



(1854) ; Gray, Hand-i B. i. p. 283, no. 4186 (1869). 

 Trochalopteron setifer, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 51 (1863). 

 Tvochalopteron imbricatum, Hume, Nests and Eyys Ind. B. p. 266 



(1873); id. 8tr. F. 1879, p. 97. 



Adult male. General colour above dark chestnut-brown, the crown 

 with blackish shaft-streaks ; the feathers of the mantle and back 

 edged with ashy brown, the latter mesially streaked with dull 

 whitish shaft-linos ; wing-coverts rufesccnt brown, the least series 

 with fulvous shaft-streaks; quills dark brown, externally dark 

 fulvous-brown, the inner secondaries deep rufous-brown, the pri- 

 maries ashy grey towards the end of the outer web ; lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts dark ashy olive-brown, with nearly 

 obsolete tiny tips of fulvous at the ends of the shafts ; tail-feathers 

 rufous-brown above, blackish towards the ends of the feathers, 

 which have a narrow tip of bufFy white, the black increasing towards 

 the outermost feathers, and extending along the outer web of the 

 external one ; lores and feathers round the eye dull white ; feathers 

 over the eye lighter brown with small whitish tips, not sufficiently 

 pronounced to form an eyebrow; ear-covei'ts lighter brown, with 

 pale shaft-lines; checks and under surface of body dark rufous- 

 brown, with pale fulvous shaft-lines on all the parts except the 

 throat ; flanks and thighs somewhat washed with ashy olive ; under 

 tail-covcrts dark olivaceous brown, with indistinct whitish spots at 

 the end of the shaft; under wing-coverts rufous -brown ; quills 

 brown below, dusky brown along the inner web. Total length 

 8-5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3, tail 4, tarsus 1*15. 



Hah. Bootan. 



a. S ad. ; b. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pemherton). India Museum. 



c. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pemberton). Gould Collection. 



26. Trochalopterum virgatum. 



Trochalopteron virgatum, Goduin-Axsf. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 43; Gmdd, 

 B. Ada, part xxvii. (1875). 



Adidt male (Xaga hills ; H. H. Godwin-Austen : type of species). 

 General colour above striated, the back olive with dusky margins 

 to the feathers, all of which have very distinct white shaft-streaks, 

 the upper tail-covcrts a little more reddish olive ; scapulars olive, 

 with very distinct white shaft-lines ; lesser wing-covcrts dark olive 

 streaked with white, a few of them slightly tinged with rufous at 

 the base ; primary-coverts very conspicuous, ashy olive, with a broad 

 central streak of "white ; median and greater coverts rich chestnut, 

 tipped with fulvous, and with distinct shaft-linos of reddish buff; 

 quills sepia-brown, the primaries externally ashy grey, the secon- 



