13. PTILOLiEMUS. 



Like Anorrhimis, but with the throat feathered ; tail brownish 

 black, tipped with white; plumage brownish above, rufous-bufif below. 

 Range. N. Cachar and IST. Tenasserim Hills. 



Key to the Species. 



Sides of the head, chin, and throat rufous-huff" tickeUi, p. 392. 



Sides of the head, chin, and throat white austeni, p. 393. 



1. Ptilolaemus tickelli. 



Buceros tickelli, ^/yr-A, J. As. SocBeiu/. xxiv. p. 266 (1855) ; TickeU, 



J. As. Soc. Benq. xxiv. p. 285 (1855) ; Bhjth, J. As. Soc. Beng. 



xxviii. p. 412 (1859) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 5. 

 Tochus tickeUi, TickeU, Ibis, 1864, p. 173, pi. iii. 

 Anorrhinus tickelli, Blyth, Cat. Mamm. B. Burma, p. 69 (1875) ; 



Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 48 [text] (1880) ; mime, Str. F. ix. 



p. 86 (1880) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burmali, ii. p. 96 (1883) ; Oates, ed. 



Hume's Nests 8,- Egys Ind. B. iii. p. 76 (1890). 

 Ocyceros tickelli, Hume, Nests S,- Eqqs Ind. B. p. 113 (1873) ; Hume 



|- Dm. Str. F. vi. p. 103 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 499 



(1878) ; Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 462 (1879), ix. p. 158 (1880). 

 Ocyceros tickellife, Bingham, Str. F. viii. p. 194 (1879). 

 Meniceros tickellife, Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 470 (1874). 

 Buceros (.Vnorrhinus) tickelli, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. iii. p. 209 



[part.] (1884). 



Adult male. Lores rufous-buff; top of head and crest brown, 

 with pale shaft-streaks and edged with rufous ; back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, scapulars, wing-coverts, and two central tail-feathers 

 brown, more or less glossed with dull grecu : primaries, secondaries, 

 and rest of tail-feathers blackish, glossed with dark green ; primary- 

 coverts, primaries, secondaries, and tail tipped with white, and 

 these, together with the greater wing-coverts and scapulars, are 

 narrowly margined with buff, which, in the middle of the outer web 

 of the third to the eighth primaries, spreads to the shaft ; sides of 

 the head and underparts bright rufous-buff, darkest on the ear- 

 coverts and paling towards the vent ; front of shoulders buff: bill 

 and casque yellowish white ; tip of lower mandible light black, and 



