J 6. DETMOCATAPHtrs. 557 



below, pale ashy rufous along the inner web. Total length 4-4 

 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2-2, tail 2, tarsus 0'9. (Mus. H. U. 

 Oodwin- Austen.) 

 Hob. Hills of North-eastern Bengal. 



6. Drymocataphus assamensis. 



Pellorneum tickelli (non Blyth), Hume c^ Davis. Sir. F. 1878, vol. i. 



pp. 277, 514; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 143, note; id. Ibis, 



1878, p. 114; id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 96. 

 Turdiniis garoensis, c? ad., Godw.- Austen, J. A. S. Betu/. xlv. p. 75 



(1876). 



Adult male (Dikrang valley, Dec. 1874). General colour above 

 dark brown, with pale shaft-streaks to the feathers of the head and 

 mantle ; fore part of crown rather lighter, with distinct yellowish 

 buff shaft-sti'eaks ; rump more uniform, with scarcely perceptible 

 shaft-lines ; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back, the 

 greater series externally more fulvous-brown ; bastard-wing feathers 

 light fulvous-brown: primary- coverts blackish, externally washed 

 with fulvous, forming a small wing-patch ; quills blackish, ex- 

 ternally deep fulvous-brown, dai-ker on the primaries, the inner 

 secondaries entirely deep fulvous-brown, with pale shafts like the 

 back ; upper tail-coverts a little lighter brown than the back ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, externallj- washed with dark fulvous-brown ; 

 lores ashy fulvous, mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; plumes 

 round the eye ashy fulvous, ashy grey on the hinder margin ; a 

 slight shade of ashy grey above the ear-coverts, not iironounced 

 enough to form an eyebrow ; ear-coverts dark brown with paler 

 fulvous shaft-lines ; cheeks pale fulvous-brown, slightly mottled 

 with dusky tips to the feathers ; under surface pale fulvous-brown, 

 with dusky brown streaks on the throat and cheeks ; centre of 

 breast and abdomen creamy white ; flanks and sides of body dark 

 olive-brown, the thighs a little more fulvescent ; under tail-coverts 

 pale fulvous ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light fulvous-brown ; 

 quills dusky brown below, creamy buff along the inner web ; '• bill 

 dark brown above, pale grey below ; legs and feet very pale flesh- 

 colour ; iris brown." Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 1-6, wing 2*5, 

 tail 2-1, tarsus 1-15. (Mus. H. H. Godwin-Austen.) 



Hah. Hills of Assam and North-eastern Bengal. 



a. (S ad. sk. DhoUah, Assam {Cockhtrn). E. W. Gates, Esq. 



7. Drymocataphiis tickelli*. 



Pellorneum tickelli, Bhjth, J. A. S. Benrj. xxviii. p. 414 (1859) ; 

 Tickell, Ibis, I8(;;i, p. 113; Hume, Str. F. Ib73, p. 299, note; 

 Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 119, 1876, p. 406; Godiu.-Austen, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 115. 



* This species has been the subject of much discussion amoug ornithologists ; 

 and I have found it yerr difHculr to settle all the disputed points. It nas first 

 described by Blyth in 1859 ; and I am inclined to agree with the late Lord 



