514 TnrELUDjB. 



6. c? ad. sk. Myitkyo, Pegu, Feb. 21, 1878. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.l. 

 c, d. $ ad. sk. Paghein, Pegu, Aug. 15, 1880. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C.J. 



3. DUMETIA. n. 



Type. 

 Dumetia, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 140 (1850) . . D. hyperytlira. 



Range. Indian peninsula and Ceylon. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No superciliary streak ; forehead only rufous ; crown 

 like back. 

 a'. Throat sienna-buif like the rest of the imder 



surface of body hyperythra, p. 515. 



v. Throat white, contrasting with the rest of the 



under surface alhigularis, p. 514. 



h. A broad superciliary streak of tawny bufF; head 

 and nape rufous-brown, contrasting with the 

 back bivittata, p. 516. 



1. Dumetia albigularis. 



Malacocercus (?) albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 453 

 (1847). 



Dumetia albogularis, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 140 (1849) 

 Layard Sj- Kelaart, Prodr. Cat., Ajjp. p. 58 (1852) ; Layard, Ann 

 <§• Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xii. p. 272 (1853) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. 

 E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 403 (1854) ; Goidd, B. Asia, part 12 (1860) 

 Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 26 (1863) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 447 

 Hume, Nests S,- Epys Ind. B. ii. p. 247 (1874) ; Butler, Sir. F. 1875! 

 p. 471 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, pp. 258, 265 ; Bourd. t. c. p. 399 ' 

 Butler, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 94 ; Ler/ge, B. Ceylon, p. 505 (1879) 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 63 ; Butler 

 t. e. p. 400 ; id. Cat. B. S. Bombay Pres. p. 42 (1880). 



Timalia hyperythra (no7i Frankl.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 261 

 (1839). 



Pellorueum albogulare, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxi. p. 357 (1852). 



Timalia albogularis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 315, no. 4703 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, slightly more fiil- 

 vescent on the rump ; the back with fairly indicated paler shaft- 

 lines ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, the pale shaft- 

 lines rather more distinct ; greater coverts and quills liglit brown, 

 externally edged with the same colour as the back, a little darker 

 olive-brown on the outer web of the primaries ; tail-feathers light 

 brown, indistinctly waved with dusky under certain lights, shaded 

 with ashy, and tipped with a narrow edging of whity brown, a little 

 more distinct on the outer feathers ; feathers of the crown of the 

 head stiffened and forehead rufescent with blackish shafts ; lores 

 and eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts ashy olive, with a slight shade of ashy 



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