13. TtrRBTNTS. 541 



h. Upper surface mottled, the feathers being . 

 rather broadl}' margined -with black, 

 c'. Upper surface with pale fulvous shaft-lines 

 to the feathers. 

 e" . Throat white, with dusky spots or tips 

 to the feathers, or ashy grey mottled 

 with dusky centres to the feathers ; 

 general colour rufeseent above, mottled 



with paler centres and blackish maro-ins , 7 ^ ; c-ta 



to the feathers; no distinct eyebrow . . ^'^'foda^'tV^us p 548. 

 ' •' I nijipectus, p. 549. 



_/"". Throat black, as also the ear-coverts . . atrigularis, p. 549. 

 d' . Upper surface with black shaft-lines to the 

 feathers ; ear-coverts and sides of neck 

 chestnut ; throat and breast thickly barred 

 with black and white loricatus, p. 550. 



1. Turdinus abbotti. 



Malacocincla abbotti, Blyth, J. A. 8. Beng. xvi. p. 601 (1845) ; 



Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 2.30 (1874). 

 Trichastoma abbotti, Blyth, J. A. S. Benq. xvi. p. 462 (1847) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 147 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 259 (1850) ; 



Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mas. i. p. 405 (1854) ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. 17 (1803) ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 535 ; Bli/ih Sj- Wald. 



B. Burm. p. 115 (1875); Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 151; Ttveedd. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 452, pi. xi. fig. 2 ; Hume ^ Davison, Str. F. 1878, 



p. 259 ; Cripps, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 277 ; Hutne, Str. F. 1879, 



pp. 60, 95. 

 Malacopteron olivaceum, Strickl, Ann, (§• Mag. Nat. Hist. xlx. p. 132 



(1847). 

 Malacopteron abbotti, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 9 (1849). 

 Trichostoma umbratile {non Strickl.), Sclater, V. Z. S. 1863, p. 215. 

 Macrouus abbotti, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 318, no. 4755 (1869). 

 Trichostoma ohvaceum, Hume, Str. F. 1880, p. 108. 

 Turdinus abbotti, Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 58 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above olivaceous browu, with faintly 

 indicated pale shaft-streaks on the feathers of the head and mantle ; 

 the rump uniform ; upper tail-coverts more ferruginous or tawny ; 

 tail-feathers brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, the 

 feathers margined with fulvous-brown ; wing-coverts olivaceous 

 browu like the back ; greater series and quills sepia-brown, ex- 

 ternally fulvesceut olive-brown ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 ashy whitish, forming a slight eyebrow ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts fulvous with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat dull 

 white, as also the centre of the breast and abdomen ; fore neck 

 and chest fulvescent brown, becoming deeper on the sides of the 

 body and inclining to ochreous buff on the flanks and thighs ; the vent 

 and under tail-coverts deep rufous ochre ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries light fulvescent brown ; quills ashy brown below, ful- 

 vescent along the edge of the inner web : " upper mandible dark 

 brown, except the tip and the terminal third of the margins, which, 

 together with the lower mandible, are pale bluish ; mouth yellow ; 

 legs and feet pinkish fleshy ; claws pale horn-colour ; iris reddish 



