558 TIUELIID^. 



Trichastoma minor, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 535 ; Wald. in Blyth, B. 

 Burm. p. llo (1875 J ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 59 ; id. ^- Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 259 ; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 114 ; Godic.-Amten, 

 t. c. p. 115. 



Turdinus garoeusis, Godw.-Axisten, J. A. S. Beng. xliii. p. 160, pi. viii. 



(1874) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 396, 1878, p. 514, 1879, p. 95. 

 Drymocataplius f ulvus, Wald. Ann. S) 3Iag. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 401 



(1875) ; id. in Bli/tJi, B. Burm. p. 115 (1875) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, 

 p. 403. 



Alcippe tickelli, Godiv.-Austen, Pr. A. S. Bene/, xlvi. p. 146 (1877). 

 Trichastoma miuus, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 385 ; Godw.-Austen, Ibis, 



1878, p. 115 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95. 

 Drjmocataphus tickeHi, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 451, pi. xi. fig. a ; Oates, 



B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 64 (1883). 



Adult fem-ctle. General colour above fulvous-brown, tbe head like 

 the back, but streaked with light fulvous shaft-lines which extend 

 to the mantle ; feathers of the rump lighter fulvous, forming a con- 

 cealed band under the long feathers of the lower back; wing- 



Tweeddale as to the identification of Blyth's species, and to dissent from the 

 view afterwards taken by Mr. Hume. The original specimen was discovered 

 by the late Colonel Tiekell at Amherst in Tenasserim, and was forwarded by 

 him to Blyth at Calcutta. Colonel Tickell's paper describing the species arrived 

 by a later mail than his specimens ; and in tlie meantime Blyth had given names 

 to them. This circumstance is explained by Colonel TickeH in the ' Ibis ' for 

 1863, pp. 111-113. 



The further history of the species appears to be as follows : — In 1873 Mr. 

 Hume, when describing a supposed new Pellomcum from Thayetmyo as 

 P. minus, reproduced in a footnote the original description of P. tickelU. In 

 1874 the same gentleman described a new Trichastoma as T. minor from Tenas- 

 serim ; and in the succeeding year the late Lord Tweeddale described a Brymo- 

 cataphus fidvus from Kareunee. In the ' Birds of Burma' Blyth identified his 

 Pellorneum tickclli as a true Pellorneum, and placed as a synonym P. suhochra- 

 ceuvi of Swinhoe. This was evidently a mistake, and Mr. Blyth's memory must 

 have failed him when uniting these two species. P. minus of Hume is also 

 admitted by Blyth into his ' Birds of Burma :' and Lord Tweeddale, in editing 

 the latter book, followed Blyth in stating that it was a synonym of P. ticlcelli. 

 In the same work Lord Tweeddale suggests that Trichastoma minor of Hume 

 is probably the same as T. ahho^ti ; but this is also an error on Lord Tweed- 

 dale's part. In the first ' List of the Birds of Upper Pegu,' a bird is identified 

 by Mr. Oates and Mr. Hume as Pellorneum tickelli. Mr. Oates brought a spe- 

 cimen of the same bird home to England, which is now in the British Museum, 

 and is duly recorded below ; so that in this year the species may be said to have 

 been rio-htly identified by Mr. Oates, and his conclusions ratified by Mr. Hume 

 as editor of 'Stray Feathers.' In 1876 Mr. Oates published a note on Pellor- 

 neum minor of Hume and P. tickelli of Blyth, in which he animadverts on Lord 

 Tweeddale's identification of these two species ; but the matter is fully explained 

 by the latter ornithologist in a letter to the ' Ibis ' for 1877 (p. 385) ; and at 

 p. 451 he contributes a " Note on the Pelhrneum tickelli of Blyth," in which he 

 shows that Pellorneum minus of Hume is P. suhochraceum of Swinhoe, and that 

 Drymocataphus f ulvus of Walden is the same as Pellorneum tickclli of Blyth, 

 but points out that it is a true Brynwcataphus, and should stnud as B. tickelli 

 (Blyth). A figure is given which cannot be said to be very characteristic, as 

 the delicate shaft-stripes on the upper surface and the faint dusky markings on 

 the throat and breast are omitted. Mr. Hume had published independently in 

 the same year (' Stray Feathers,' 1877, p. 59) his opinion that Drymocataphus 

 ftdviis of Walden and his own Trichastoma minor were one and the same species. 



