4-i6 TIIIELUD.E. 



Adult. General colour above reddish brown, the wing-coverts 

 like ihc back ; quills brown, externally reddish brown, tlie inner- 

 most secondaries entirely of the latter colour ; centre tail-feathers 

 dark brown, reddish brown at the base, the remainder of the feathers 

 rufous with black shafts, and shaded with blackish brown on the 

 inner web as they approach the centre ; entire head, hind neck, and 

 sides of neck dark slaty grey ; lores, nasal plumes, feathers in front 

 of the eye, ear-coverts, and a spot at the base of the lower mandible, 

 as well as another at the chin, black ; entire cheeks, throat, and 

 chest yellow, becoming whiter on the lower breast and abdomen ; 

 sides of bnnist dark slaty grey ; lower flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts chestnut, deeper on the latter ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries chestnut ; quills dusky brown below, rufescent along the 

 margin of the inner web. Total length 9-3 inches, culmen 1*2, 

 wing 3-85, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-5. 



Hab. Assam and hills of North-eastern Bengal. 



a. Ad. sk. Khasia hills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



b. Ad. sk. Assam {McCkUand). India Museum. (Type 



of species.) 



13. Garrulax delesserti. 



Crateropus delesserti, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 256 (1839) ; id. III. 

 Ind. Orn. pi. xii. (1847). 



Tardus (Crateropus) griseiceps, Deless. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 101. 



Pterocyclus delesserti, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 226 (1846). 



Cxarrulax delesserti, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. .37 (1863) ; Guidd, B. Asia, 

 part xix. (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96. 

 Adidt. General colour above chestnut-brown, lighter on the upper 

 tail-coverts, the wing-coverts like the back ; primary-coverts dark 

 brown with reddish margins ; quills dusky brown, externally edged 

 ■with reddish brown, the inner secondaries entirely chestnut-brown ; 

 tail-feathers black, washed with reddish brown near the base ; head 

 and neck dull slaty brown, extending a little onto the mantle, the 

 head more dusky ; base of forehead mottled with a few white 

 streaks ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black ; 

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

 ashy grey, lighter in the centre ; remainder of under surface of body 

 chestnut, paler in the middle of the abdomen ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts chestnut, those near the edge of the wing ashy brown ; 

 quills dusky brown below, more ashy along the margin of the iimer 

 web ; " bill dusky, yellow at the base beneath ; legs fleshy ; iris 

 dull red" {Jerdon). Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 4, 

 tail -l-l, tarsus 1-5. 



Ilah. The Wynaad and Nilghiri hills in Southern India. 



ft. Ad. sk. Nilghiris. Gould Collection. 



14. Garrulax palliatus. 



Ciuclosoma palliatuni, Tcnnn. MSS. in Mits. Lugd. 



lanthocincla palliata, Bp. C'vnsp. i. p. 371 (1850, ex Tcinm. MSS.). 



