518 TIMELIID^. 



5. PELLORNEUM. 



Type. 

 Pellorneimi, Swahis, Faun. Bor.-Amer., Aves, p. 487 



(1831) P. mficeps. 



Cinclidia, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1837, p. 137 P. nificeps. 



Hemipteron, Hodgs. in Grmjs Orn. Misc. p. 83 (1844). . P. nipaleuse. 



Eange. Indian peninsula excepting the North-west provinces, and 

 not ascending- the Himalayas to any extent, ranging through the 

 Burmese countries to the upper part of the Malay peninsula and 

 the Salanga Islands. 



Key to the Species, 



a. Centre of the feathers of the hind neck and 



mantle black, giving a streaked appearance ; 

 sides of neck also very distinctly streaked with 

 brown and whitish. 

 «'. Larger: eyebrow ashy white, anteriorly spotted 

 with black; forehead streaked with shaft- 

 lines of black nipa'ense, p. 518. 



b'. Smaller : eyebrow light tawny buif, not spotted 

 with black ; lores and extreme base only of 

 forehead streaked with black shaft-lines . . intertnedium, p. 519. 



b. Hind neck uniform, not streaked with black. 



e'. Head rufous or rufous-brown, contrasting with 

 the olive-brown back. 

 a". Larger : head rufous-brown ; eyebrow and 



ear-coverts vinous buff n(ficeps, p. 520. 



b". Smaller: head bright chestnut; eyebrow 

 yellowish white, spotted with black an- 

 teriorly ; ear-coverts rufous, washed with 



dusky on hinder margin subochraceum,^.52\. 



d' . Head dark oHve-hrown like the back, slightly 



washed with rufous on the forehead palustre, p. 522. 



1. PeUorneum nipalense. 



Hemipteron nipalense, Ilodi/s. Icon. ined. in Brit, Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 170. fig. 1 (no. 377) ; 'id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Pellorueum ruficeps (tion Stuains), Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. 



Hodf/s. p. 224 (1846); Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 300; Hume, Sir. F. 



187.3, p. 493. 

 PeUorneum mandellii, Blanford, Pr. A. S. Beng. p. 215 (1871) ; id. 



J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 165, pi. vii. fig. 2 (1872) ; Hume, Str. F, 



1873, p. 298, note ; Blanford, Str, F. 1879, p. 181 ; Rmne, t. c. 



p. 188. 

 PeUorneum pectoralis, Godwin-Austen, J. A. 8. Beng. xlvi. pt. 2, p, 41 



(1877) ; Hume, Str, F, 1877, p. 341, note; id. op, cit, p. 96. 

 PeUorneum nipalense, Hume, Str, F, 1879, p. 96 ; id. Str, F, 1880, 



p. 2.50. - 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-brown, with more or less 

 concealed fulvous bases to the feathers of the mantle ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, with pale shaft-lines to the lesser and median series ; 



