28. DKTOJTASTES. 457 



as also the base of the forehead, which is separated from the grey 

 crown by a narrow line of pointed silvery-white feathers ; cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, sides of throat, and sides of, neck white ; the base of 

 the cheeks, the chin, and centre of the throat black; chest light 

 ashy, inclining to ashy grey on the breast ; abdomen, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts olive-brown ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 larics also olive-brown; qniUs below dusky brown. Total length 

 10 inches, culnien 1-05, wing 4*2, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-55. (J/ms. B. G. 

 WarcUaw Ramsay.) 

 Hah. Lhota-K^aga hills in Jforth-eastem Bengal. 



4. Dryonastes strepitans. 



Garrulax sti-epitans, Tickell MSS. ; £li/th, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. 

 p. 268 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 'If^^, no. 4165 (1869) ; Blyth, 

 B. Burm. p. 107 (1875) ; Kume &; Damson, Sti: F. 1878, p. 288 ; 

 mme, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Oat.es, B. Brit. Burm. p. 37 (1883). 



Adult female. General colour above olive-brown, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard-wing feathers blackish brown ; primar)-- 

 coverts and quills blackish, the outer webs edged with olive-brown, 

 broader ou the secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with 

 olive-brown on the edge and obscurelj- barred with dusky under 

 certain lights ; mantle slaty grey, separated from the nape by a 

 shade of hoary grey, culminating in a white spot on the sides of 

 the neck ; crown of head and nape reddish brown, with some of the 

 feathers margined with ashy ; nasal plumes black, as also the basal 

 portion of the forehead and lores ; the fore part of the crown dark 

 chocolate-brown, shading ofl' into the rufous-brown of the head; 

 feathers over and round the eye, cheeks, and fore part of ear-coverts 

 black, the hinder part of the latter chestnut ; chin and edge of throat 

 black ; the centre of the throat and fore neck blackish chocolate, the 

 feathers of the latter tipped with reddish brown ; breast and centre 

 of abdomen slaty grey, inclining to hoary white where the grey 

 skirts the dark fore neck and chest; sides of bodj-, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts olive-brown ; axillaries olive-brown edged 

 with grey ; under wing-coverts olive-brown, the lower series dusky 

 brown like the quills below, these being more or less ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web ; " bill black ; legs and feet very dark 

 brown, sometimes brown-black, claws paler ; iris generally lake-red, 

 sometimes crimson" (Davison). Total length 11*5 inches, culmen 

 I'lo, wing o-2o, tail 5*1, tarsus 1-8. 



Hab. Tenasserim. 



II. 9 ad. sk. Halfway between Mooleyit and A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



Paraduba, British Burmah, 

 Jan. 27, 1877 ( W. Daiison). 



5. Dryonastes monachus. 



ius, Swin/i. Ibis, 1870, p. 2~. 

 (^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 198 (Ic 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-brown ; the wing-coverts 



Garrulax monachus, Swin/i. Ibis, 1870, p. 248 ; id P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 372; David ^ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 198 (1877). 



