AND ALLIED GENERA. 97 



the tarsus ; this latter strong , at least an inch in length , 

 toes long and strong. Crown more or less rufous, bordered 

 by a distinct, paler eyebrow; lower surface, at least the 

 chest, distinctly striped with brown. — Five species. 

 Range. British India. 



Key to the species 0* 



a. Mantle streaked. 



a. Forehead and eyebrow with black shaft-streaks Mandellii. 

 b'. Forehead and eyebrow with only a few black 



specks at the ends of the feathers minor. 



b. Mantle not streaked. 



a'. Crown rufous rujicejps. 



b'. Crown chestnut subochraceum. 



c'. Crown brown . . u paltistre. 



1. Pellorneum Mandellii. 



Hemipteron mpalense Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844, 



descr. nulla). 

 Pellorneum Mandellii Blanf. J. A. S. Bang. XLI, pt. II, p. 165, pi. 



VII (1872); Gates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 140 (1889). 

 Pellorneum nipalense Hume, N. & E. p. 248; Blanf. Stray Feath. 



VIII, p. 181 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 518 (1883). 



Hab. British India. 



Two specimens from Nepal in the Leyden Museum. 



2. Pellorneum minor. 



Pellorneum minor Hume, Str. F. I, p. 298 (1873); id. Ill, p. 120 (1875). 

 Pellorneum intermedium Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 519, pi. XIII, f. 1 



(1883); Gates, B, Br. Burmah, I, p. 67 (1883); Salvad. Aon. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. (2) IV, p. 597 (1886). 

 Pellorneum, minus Gates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 141 (1889). 



Hab. British India, from Cachar up to Thayetmyo. 



3. Pellorneum ruficeps. 



Pellorneum ruficeps Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 487 (1831); 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 520 (1883) ; Gates, B. Br. Ind. I, p. 141 (1889). 

 Hab. Indian Peninsula. 

 One specimen from Malabar in the Leyden Museum. 



1) I accepted, for this genus, the key in Gates. B. Br. India, omitting 

 the species fmcicapillum and ignotum. , which both belong to other genera. 

 Notes from tlie Leyden ]Museu.m, Vol. XVII. 



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