to ' The Birds of India.' 307 



colour distinct and not passing into any thing else on the nape, 

 but distinctly contrasting with the olive colouring of the back ; 

 lores, which are small, and a narrow streak running back from 

 the eye dusky ; supercilia and orbital feathers white ; back 

 olive, rather brighter towards the rump ; wings and tail rather 

 darker ; beneath the chin and throat, with the sides of the head 

 below the eyes, rather pale grey, the feathers of the middle of the 

 breast the same, but with dark stripes in the centre ; sides of 

 the neck ashy, this colour passing far back close to the dark 

 brown of the head ; whole of abdomen and lower tail-coverts 

 ferruginous ; flanks and thigh-coverts olivaceous ; beak dusky ; 

 legs dark plumbeous. Dimensions as in T. jerdoni; wing 

 3-4, tail 3-7, bill at front 0-7. 



This species is very close to T. jerdoni, but diff"ers apparently 

 in the want of the black chin, in the head being darker; the 

 rufous colour of the abdomen is paler j and this colour extends to 

 the under tail-coverts, which are olivaceous in T. jerdoni. It 

 abounds in the Pulney range of hills, in Southern India. 



7\ jerdoni has hitherto only been found by myself on the peak 

 of Banasore, a hill on the south-western edge of the Tognaad, at 

 a height of between 5000 and 6000 feet ; but it will probably 

 occur in other equally elevated ridges in that mountainous dis- 

 trict or in the conterminous region of Coorg, from which it is not 

 separated by any depression. Banasore is at no very great dis- 

 tance (say 50 or 60 miles) from the western slopes of the Neil- 

 gherriesj and it would not have been at all remarkable had the 

 Neilgherry species extended all along the crest of the Tognaad 

 to Banasore ; but the mass of the heights intervening are mostly 

 at a lower level than this species loves. South of the Neilgher- 

 ries and the Tognaad occurs a great gap in the hill- region, 

 narrow towards the west, but opening out into the plains of the 

 Carnatic eastward. The Pulney hills rise out of this plain ; and 

 they are continued, though at unequal elevation, westward to the 

 Annamally range, which is believed to be still higher, at all events 

 to include certain much more elevated points than.the Pulneys. 

 It will be interesting to find what species of Trochalopteron in- 

 habits this range, whether T. fairhanki, which is perhaps most 

 probable, T. jerdoni, or a distinct race. I trust that some of the 



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