300 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



bill from front i, tarsus |, foot 1^^. Irides dull yellow } legs 

 dingy oil-yellow. It is not rare in long grass and brushwood in 

 Assam, in tlocks of eight to ten and more ; and Major Godwin- 

 Austen found it apparently still more common, in flocks from 

 twelve to fifteen, in thick bamboo-jungle in Cachar. 



396. TiMALIA PILEATA. 



Our bird is distinct from the Javan species, and must stand as 

 Timaliajerdoni, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. x. 

 p. 61 (1872). 



397 & 398. DuMETiA albogularis and D. hyperythra 

 have been figured by Gould, B. Asia, pt. xii. pis. 15, 16. The 

 latter was previously badly figured in Guerin's Mag. de Zoologie, 

 p. 1835, pi. 40. 



399. Pellorneum ruficeps. 



I found this bird very common in Assam. One measured in 

 the flesh was 7 inches in length, extent 9^, wing 3^, tail 3, tar- 

 sus \-^, foot 1|. 



Mr. Beavan says it is called Bulhul postha in Maubhoom. Now 

 Bulbul bostha is the name given by all bird-fanciers to the true 

 Nightingale ; and it was probably wrongly applied to this bird. 



399 his. Pellorneum palustre, Jerdon, antea, p. 188. 



Upper surface uniform olive-brown ; forehead and upper tail- 

 coverts with indications of ferruginous ; lores, chin, throat, and 

 some of the abdominal feathers pure white ; breast-feathers pure 

 white, with broad olive-brown central streaks, in many the white 

 changing into cream-colour, mixed with pale rusty ; flanks and 

 thigh-coverts olive-brown, tinged with ferruginous ; under tail- 

 coverts and shoulder-coverts bright ferruginous ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts pale rusty ; wings and tail ferruginous brown, tinged 

 with olive. Wing 2f, tail 2-1, tarsus 1. 



I found this new species many years ago near Cherapoonjee. 

 I recently found it not rare in Assam in long grass, and also in 

 bush and low tree-jungle ; and Major Godwin- Austen also got 

 it at the base of the Khasia hills, near Chatak, in grass and reeds 

 by the margin of rivers and swamps. 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 



