522 TIMELIIDiE. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 5-8 inches, culmen 0-G5, wing 2-5, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-95, 



Mr. Hume says that in a series the length of the wing in the 

 male varies from 2-o to 2-75 inches and the tarsus 0-95 to 1-05, 

 and in the female the wing varies from 2-37-2-5 inches, while the 

 tarsus he gives as 1 inch in length. 



ITah. Burmese provinces, extending over the whole of Pegu, and 

 ranging thi-ough Tenasserim to Tonka in the Malay peninsula and 

 the Salanga Islands. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Rangoon, Julv 7, 1876. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C." . 



b, c. (S ad. sk. Pegu, Nov. 1877. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C. 



d. c? ad. sk. Pegu, Au?. 27, 1880. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C. . 



e. S ad. sk. Pegu, March 27, 1881. E. W. Gates, Esq. [0.;. 



f. c? ad; sk. Mvawadee, Tenasserim, A. G. Hume, Esq. 



Jan. 24,1877 ( W. Davison). 

 (7. 2 ad.sk. rootofMt.XValabo,Aprill, A. G. Hume, Esq. 



1878 {W. Davison), 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Baukasoon, April 17, 1877 A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



{W.D.). 

 i S ad sk. Kaukarvit, June 19, 1878 A. G. Hume, Esq. 



{W. D.). 

 k. Ad. sk. Salanga Islands (Weber). "Lmngea " Society, 



Frankfort. 



5. Pellorneum palustre. 



PeUomeum palustre, Gould, B. Asia, part xxiv. (1872, ex Jerd. MS.) ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 4 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 300 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1873, p. 215. 



Adult. General colour above uniform dark olive-brown, a little 

 lighter on the forehead ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally dark olive-brown like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail darker brown than the back ; extreme base of fore- 

 head and a streak above the lores to above the eye light rufous ; 

 lores white ; car-coverts brown, streaked with fulvous shaft-lines ; 

 fore part of cheeks white, washed with ochraceous buff and tipped 

 with blackish brown ; hinder checks deep ochraceous buff or fawn- 

 colour, extending onto the sides of the neck ; throat white, as also 

 the centre of the abdomen : fore neck and chest white, washed 

 with ochraceous and very broadly streaked with blackish brown ; 

 sides of bodv rich ochraceous buif, streaked broadly with lighter 

 brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts rich fawn-buff; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries deep fawn-colour ; quills light brown below, 

 fulvcscent along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-7 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-35, tail 2-G5, tarsus 0-95. (Mus. B. G. Ward- 

 law Ramsay.^ 



Hub. Assam and the foot of the Khasia hiUs. 



6. SCOTOCICHLA. 



Drymocataphus, pt., auct. recent. 

 Pellorneum, pt., auct. recent. 



Range. Ceylon. 



