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coverts like the back and showing the same light shaft-streaks ; 

 quills dusky brown, externally fulvous-brown like the back, paler 

 on the primaries, the secondaries slightly edged paler at the tips ; 

 tail-feathers light brown edged with fulvous-brown, and with reddish- 

 brown shafts ; lores and feathers round the eye fulvoi;s, the former 

 with whitish shaft-streaks ; ear-coverts light brown, obscurely 

 streaked with narrow fulvous shaft-lines ; feathers above the ear- 

 coverts paler fulvous-brown with whitish shaft-hnes, scarcely sufB- 

 ciently marked to be called an eyebrow ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body fulvous, the centre of the breast and abdomen whitish ; on 

 the breast a few indications of slightly darker fulvous-brown streaks ; 

 flanks and sides of body rather deeper fulvous ; thighs and under 

 tail- coverts fulvous, as also the under wing-coverts and axiUaries ; 

 quills dusky below, fulvous along the inner web ; " biU dusky 

 above, pale fleshy beneath ; inside of mouth yellow ; irides reddish 

 brown ; eyelids greenish fleshy ; legs fleshj' white, toes of a slightly 

 paler colour " {E. W. Oates). Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0*6, 

 wing 2-25, tail 1-8, tarsus 1, 



Adult male. Resembles the female in colour, but is rather larger. 

 Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2-45, tail 2, tarsus 

 1-05. 



Hah. Hills of Karen-nee, Pegu, and Tenasserim. 



To the ' Ibis ' Mr. Hume sent a further note on these species, in 1878, accom- 

 panied by specimens of the bird which he identified as Pellorneiim tickelli, and 

 also examples of his Trichasioma minor, asking if the Editors would find out if 

 the latter was identical with Turdinus garoensis of God win -Austen. The Editors 

 of the • Ibis ' submitted the specimens to Colonel Godwin-Austen, who identified 

 Pellonieum HckeUi (Blvth apud Hume) as the same as his Turdinus c/aroensis, 

 " male," from the Dafla hills. Trichcutonia minor of Hume he shows to be the 

 same as B. fxlviis, Walden, and also identifies it with the true Pellonieum 

 tickelli of Blvth : he further considers it to be distinct from his Turdinus garo- 

 ensis, thousrh closely allied to it. In the same year (Str. F. 1878, p. 259) Mr. 

 Hume allows the identity of Z^./^^j^^s with his Trichastmna minor, and suggests 

 that T. garoensis, Godwin-Austen, is really the same species. In this conclu- 

 Bion he is quite right, as I am able to afiirm from an examination of the tj-pe of 

 T. garoensis, which Colonel Godwin-Austen has kindly lent to me. Further 

 on, in his account of the ' Birds of Tenasserim,' Mr. Hume writes of Pellorneum, 

 tickelli, and does not agree with Colonel Godwin- Austen's identifications, and 

 reiterates his previous opinions. Mr. Oates's collection, however, contains a 

 poor specimen from Dhollah, in Assam, which was given to him by Mr. Hume, 

 and which I believe to be the bird which the latter gentleman considers to 

 be true P, tickelli of Blyth. This specimen, which is now in the British 

 Museum, is really the same as ihs male oi Turdinus garoensis from the Dikrang 

 vaUey in Colonel Godwin-Austen's collection ; but it is not the same species as his 

 Turdinus garoensis, according to my views, after an examination of both the 

 specimens referred to ; and it is this mistake which has puzzled Mr. Hume. The 

 latter gentleman, at p. 514 of vol. vi. of ' Stray Feathers,' says that he has ob- 

 tained a specimen of tlie true Turdinus garoensis of Godwin- Austen ; but I do 

 not feel certain, from reading his remarks, that he has really obtained Godwin- 

 Austen's species. In 1879 Mr. Hume, in his ' List of the Birds of India,' still 

 adheres to his beUef that Pellorneum tickelli is distinct from his Trickastoma 

 minus, and refers them to two diflferent genera ; but I trust that, after reading 

 my remarks, he will be able to agree with my conclusions. Mr. Oates, who 

 examined the subject with me. has, I am glad to say, adopted my views. 



