24. STACTOCICHIA. 449 



rufous ; remaiuder of under surface from the fore neck downwards 

 deep fulvous-brown, the sides of the body darker and more olive- 

 brown including the thighs and under tail-coverts; axillaries Hke 

 tbe sides of the breast ; under wing-coverts pale rufous ; quills 

 brown below rufous at the base of the inner webs and for some 

 distance^ up the latter. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 5-1 

 tail 4-/0, tarsus 1'7. ^ ' 



Hah. Java. 



d xd tf t''"'"'''- ^^o^ld Collectiou. ^ 



a. Ad. St. Java. Purchased. 



24. STACTOCICHLA. 



Garrulax auct. recent. 



Range. Hill-ranges of North-eastern Bengal. 



1. Stactocichla merulina. 



Garrulax merulinus, Bbjth, J. A. S. Beng. xx. p. 521 (1851) ; ,d 

 Cat. B. ^f»^-As_.%c., App. p. 7 (1851) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 303;" 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 394, 1879, p. 96. ^ ' 



Trochalopterum merulinum, Horsf. 8,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. 

 1. p. 4Uo (1854). 



Pterocyclus merulinus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no. 4191 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above rufescent brown ; the wing-coverts 

 a little duUer than the back ; quills brown, rufescent brown on the 

 outer webs ; tail brown, the feathers margined with the same colour 

 as the back ; lores dull ashy ; feathers in front of and below the 

 eye, as weU as the fore part of cheeks, dusky blackish ; hinder part 

 ot cheeks, and ear-coverts rufescent brown, separated from the 

 crown by an lU-dcfined streak of white ; throat, fore neck, and chest 

 yellowish buff, broadly streaked with central triangular spots of 

 black ; breast rufous buff, becoming paler on the abdomen ; sides of 

 the body rufous-brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts rufescent • 

 under wing-coverts like the breast, the lower series dull ashy brown' 

 like the under surface of the quiUs, which is pale fulvous. Total 

 length 8-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-55, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-5, 



A second specimen, apparently younger, is of a rather more 

 ohvaceous tint both above and below, and has the throat paler buff 

 mchiuug to white on the chin. The amount of spotting on the 

 throat varies greatly in this species, as does also the extent of the 

 orange-buff tinge on the fore neck. 



Hab. Khasia and Naga hills, extending into Munipur. 



a. Ad. ; h. Juv. sk. Khasia hills {Jerdon). Gould Collection 



^; 'Y\ ®'5- Khasia hills. India Museum. 



''• ^^^- ^^- [Daijiliuo- {Pearson).-] India Museum. 

 VOL. vu. 2g 



