5. PELLOEIfEUM, 521 



Madras on the east, occurring also in Maunbhoom and the Eajmehal 

 hiUs. 



a. Ad, sk. ? Mahabalcshwur hills India Museum. 



(Sykei). 



b, c. (S 2 fid. sk. Mababaleshwur bills, April E. W. Gates, Esq. 



and May 1878 (Fairbank). 



d. Ad. sk. Madias. Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Malabar. Eyton Collection. 



/. Ad. sk. Matheran, Bombay, Jan. 25, Major Haves Lloyd 



1872. [P.]. 



g. Ad. sk. Nilgbiris. Gould Collection. 



4. Pellorneum subochraceum. 



Pelloi-neum subochraceum, Swinh. Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. 



p. 257 (1871) ; Blanf. Str. F. 1872, p. 87 ; Jercl. Ibis, 1872, p. 300 ; 



Tweed. Ibis, 1877, pp. 380, 452, pi. x. ; Hume (^ Davison, Str. F. 



1878, vol. i. pp. 278, 514 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 61, 96 ; Bing- 

 ham, Str. F. 1880, p. 180. 

 Pellorneum tickelli, Blanf. Ibis, 1872, p. 87 {nee Blyth) ; Walden in 



Blyt.h, B. Burm. p. 115 (1875). 

 Pellorneum minor, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 298 ; Oates, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 120 ; Hume, t. c. p. 121 ; Blyth ^- Wald. B. Btirm. p. 114 



(1875) ; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 154. 

 Pellorneum ruhceps {non Sykes), Blyth, B. Burm. p. 114 (1875). 



Adult male. Above dingy olive-bro-wn, with faintly indicated palo 

 shaft-lines to the feathers of the mantle, the lower back and rump 

 perfectly uniform and rather more fulvesceut ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, but edged with fulvous ; bastard-wing feathers washed 

 with ashy ; quills brown, externally edged with ashy olive, more 

 grey on the outer webs of the primaries and more fulvous on the 

 inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts tinged with rufous ; tail- 

 feathers dull olive-browu, washed on the outer webs with clearer 

 olive, barred across with dusky under certain lights, and narrowly 

 fringed with fulvous at the tip ; crown of head rufous, narrowly 

 streaked with fulvous shaft-lines ; lores rufescent, with blackish 

 shaft-streaks ; ear-coverts rufous, washed with dusk}' olive on the 

 hinder margin ; checks buffy white, slightly mottled with dusky 

 margins to the feathers ; sides of neck slightly streaked with ashy- 

 olive margins to the feathers ; throat pure white ; under surface of 

 body light ochreous buff, whiter in the centre of the abdomen ; the 

 breast streaked with dusky olive-brown, these streaks widening 

 somewhat towards their ends ; they commence on the lower throat 

 and become broader and less distinct on the flanks, which are 

 washed with brown ; thighs tawny buff; under tail-coverts light 

 olive-brown, margined with yellowish white ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts light tawny buff; quills light brown below, fulvescent 

 aloug the edge of the inner web : " upper mandible dark brown, 

 paling towards the tip ; lower mandible yellow from base to angle 

 of gonys, and thence to tip dcshy or Heshy white ; legs, feet, and 

 claws pinkish fleshy ; iridcs varying from red-brown to pinkish red 

 or light pinkish red " (E. W. Oates). Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0'7, wing 2"55, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-95. 



