560 HMELUB-J!. 



a. S ad. sk. Pabyin, Mergui District, E. W. Oates, Esq. 



Tenasserim, Nov. 15, 

 1874 {W. Davison). 



b. 9 ad. sk. Evergreen forests, eastern E. W. Oates, Esq. [0.]. 



slopes of Pegu hills, 

 AprU 16, 1873. 



8. Drymocataphus rubiginosus. 



Trichostoma rubiginosa, Walden, Ann. ^ Mar/. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. 

 p. 402 (1875) ; id. in Blyth B. Burm. p. 115 (1875) ; Hume ^ 

 Davison, Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 260 ; Hume, Sti: F. 1879, p. 95. 



Adult female. (Karen-nee, March 23, 1874 ; R. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay : type of species). General colour above fulvous-brown, the 

 head a little duller than the back, slightly washed with tawny on 

 the forehead ; upper tail-coverts somewhat washed with rufous ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the greater series and tlie quills light 

 brown, externally like the back, rather more tawny on the outer 

 web and on the primaries ; tail-feathers brown washed with olive- 

 brown, and narrowly fringed with reddish at the tips; lores*, a 

 narrow eyebrow, sides of face and cheeks, as well as the sides of 

 the throat and under surface of body, ferruginous or deep tawny ; 

 chin and centre of throat, as well as the centre of the breast and 

 abdomen, white ; under wing- coverts and asillaries like the breast ; 

 quills ashy brown below, pale tawny along the edge of the inner 

 web ; " bill blackish brown above, paler below, yellowish at gape ; legs 

 dull pinkish white ; iris light brown." Total length 6-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-75, wing 3, taU 255, tarsus 1-35. {Alas. II. G. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay.) 



Young female. Similar to the adult, but more fluffy in plumage ; 

 the latter also duller in colour. (3fus. B. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Hub. HlUs of Karen-nee, Burmah. 



17. ORTYGOCICHLA. 



Type. 

 Ortygocichla, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 452 0. rubiginosa. 



Range. New Britain. 



1. Ortygocichla rubiginosa. 

 Ortygocichla rubiginosa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 452, pi. 39. 



Adult female. General colour above brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 and median coverts like the back, outer lesser coverts edged with 

 rufous ; greater coverts, bastard wing, and primary-coverts dusky 

 brown, externally edged with dull rufous ; quUls sepia-brown, ex- 

 ternally edged with rufous-brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers rufous-brown ; crown of head a little more dusky than the 



* The specimens are somewhat damaged about the head, and it is difficult to 

 make out exactly the distribution of the rufous colour. 



