456 TrMELiTD.?;. 



Blyth S,- Walden, B. Burm. p. 107 (1875); David ^- Oust. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 191 (1877) ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 289 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 38 (1883). 

 Garrulax slianhu, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 225 (1846). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-browu, the wing-coverts 

 like the back, the bastard wing washed with ashy ; quiUs blackish 

 brown, externally olive-brown, the primaries ashy grey on the outer 

 web ; tail-feathers olive-brown, black at the ends, the outer webs 

 entirely black, washed with olive-brown near the base ; head and 

 nape slaty blue ; nasal plumes, lores, and base of forehead black, 

 separated from the grey crown by a frontal line of hoary white ; 

 feathers round the eye and a streak above the ear-coverts white ; 

 ear-coverts and hinder cheeks silvery white ; sides of neck light 

 drab-brown ; feathers at gape, fore part of cheeks, throat, and fore 

 neck black, the latter washed with reddish brown on the lower 

 part ; breast and sides of fore neck ashy grey, fading away on the 

 abdomen, which, like the sides of the body and thighs, is olive- 

 brown, deeper on the under tail-coverts ; axillaries -and under wing- 

 coverts olive-brown, the lower series of the latter dusky ; quills 

 dusky brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 black ; legs dusky brown ; iris lake " (72. G. Wardlaw Hamsay). 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmen I'l, wing 4-6, tail 4-7, tarsus 1-65. 

 (Mils. R. O. Wardlaiu Ramsay.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1*1, wing 4*9, tail 5, tarsus 1'8. 



Hab. Extreme south of China on the borders of Tonkin, ranging 

 into Burmah and Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. China. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P-]. 



b. Ad. St. China. Zoological Society. 



c. Ad. sk. Karen hills, August 1875. Capt. R. G. Wardlaw 



Ramsay [C.]. 



d. 2 ad.sk. Kyeikpadein, Lower Pegu, E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



'March 9. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Shwavgheen, Pegu, May E. W. Oates, Esq. [C.]. 



187o. 

 /. Ad. sk. Meetan, Tenasserim (Lim- Captain R. G. Wardlaw 



bo)-ff). Ramsay. 



3. Dryonastes nuchalis. 

 Garrulax nuchalis, Godicin-Au^ten, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) 

 xviii. p. 411 (1876) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. xlvii. p. 17, pi. x. (1878) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. v. p. 58 (1877) ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 96. 



Adult female. General colour above rufescent olive-brown, the 

 hind neck and mantle bright chestnut ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 the bastard- wing feathers ashy ; primary-coverts du.sky, washed 

 externally with the colour of the back ; quills dark brown, externally 

 like the back, the primaries ashy on the outer web ; tail-feathers 

 dusky brown, blackish towards their ends and washed with olive- 

 brown on both webs ; crown of head and nape slaty grey ; the 

 lores, nasal plumes, and feathers in front of and round the eye black, 



