520 TIMELIIDJ5. 



3. Pellorneum ruficeps. 



Pellorneum ruficeps, Sioains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 487 (1831) ; 

 Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 883 (1842), xiii. p. 372 (1844) ; Graij, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 227 (1846) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 145 

 (1849) ; B2}. Consp. i. p. 219 (1850) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. 

 Co. Mus. i. p. 224 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 27 (1863) ; Beavan, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 432 ; Grarj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 283, no 4197 (1869) ; 

 Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 409; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, p. 258; Bourd. 

 t. c. p. 399; Fairb. Str. F. 1877, p. 404; Hume, Str. F. 1878, 

 vol. i. p. 277; Ball, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 214; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 96 ; Vidal, Sir. F. 1880, p. 63 ; Butler, t. c. p. 400 ; id. 

 B. S. Bengal Pres. p. 42 (1880). 



Megalurus ? ruficeps, St/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 91. 



Motacilla dumeticola, fickell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 576 (1833). 



Ciuclidia punctata, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137. 



Pellorneum olivaceum, Jerd. Mad?: Juurn. x. p. 255 (1841). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-brown, the feathers 

 being brown and olive on the margins ; lower back and rump a 

 little more uniform brown, as also the upper tail-coverts ; shaft- 

 streaks lighter on the feathers of the mantle and upper back ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, with the same paler shaft-lines ; quills dusky- 

 brown, externally olive-brown, the innermost secondaries rather 

 more reddish brown; tail-feathers uniform ashy brown, slightly 

 washed with olive-brown on the edges ; head and nape dull rufous, 

 with fulvescent shaft-streaks, more distinct on the forehead ; lores 

 and a broad superciliary streak extending to the sides of the nape 

 ochraceous buff, as also the feathers round the eye; superciliary 

 feathers tipped with black just above the eye ; a dusky spot in front 

 of the eye, and ear-coverts dull rufescent brown, the latter with 

 fulvous shaft-lines ; cheeks bufly white, with narrow hair-like black 

 Bhaft-strcaks to the feathers; entire throat uniform butfy white; 

 remainder of under surface of body ochraceous buff, whiter on the 

 centre of the abdomen; the fore neck narrowly and the breast 

 more broadly streaked with dark brown ; sides of body olive-brown, 

 darker in the centre of the feathers, which are more or less di- 

 stinctly margined with ochraceous buff; thighs rufescent ochre; 

 under tail-coverts whitish, with dusky brown centres ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts rufescent ochre ; qiiills dusky brown below, 

 ochraceous buff' along the edge of the inner web. Total length 

 6*9 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 2-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but smaller in 

 size. Total length G-4 inches, culmen 0*75, wing 2-65, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus 1'05. 



Some specimens appear rather more rufous than others, and have 

 the rufous crown very strongly defined. .In a Madras specimen 

 the general cast of the plumage is ashy and the crown is only 

 slightly more rufescent than the back, the superciliary streak is 

 whitish, and the under surface also very pale, with light-brown 

 streaks on the breast. 



Hah. The hills of Southern India, but not found in the plains of 

 the Deccan ; extending as high as Matheran on the west coast and 



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