238 TIMALIID®, 
a little more than, three quarters the length of the head, straight 
and notched at the tip; the nostrils are not overhung by hairs 
and the rictal bristles are very short. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A. Breast boldly streaked with dark brown, 
a. Mantle not streaked. 
a’, Crown rufous...... pccccsereceess Lb. ruficeps rujicens, p.20e, 
6’. Crown pale chestnut ...... eveseees L.1, subochraceum, p. 239. 
e'. Crown dark chestnut, .....: <0: .. Pr. granti, p. 240. 
6. Mantle streaked with dark brown. 
d'. Upper back streaked with dark brown. 
a'', Less olive, more rufous ........ P. r. mandellii, p. 240, 
b’. Less rufous, more olive ........ Pay jonesy peas 
e'. Upper back with no definite streaks. P. 7. minal, p. 242. 
B. Breast streaked brown and greyish buff.. P. palustre, p. 242. 
©. Breast either not streaked at all or only 
obsoletely so. 
ec. Crown concolorous with back ; forehead 
without pale shafts. 
f'. Above fulvous olive-brown ..,.,... P. tickelli tickellt, p. 247. 
g'. Above rufescent olive-brown ...... P. t. assamensis, p. 248. 
d. Crown concolorous with back but fore- 
head pale shafted. 
h’. Breast tinged brownish .......... P.ignotum ignotum, p.245. 
i’. Breast tinged bright rufous........ P.t. cinnamomeum, p. 244. 
e. Crown darker than back. [capillum, p. 245. 
j'. Cap nearly chocolate-brown....,... P. fuscicapillum fusei- 
ie. Cap Oltve-DrOwm Go. ie ici ete oleds P. f. babaulti, p. 245. 
Ene C@apyblachs a. S80-i.)onse uetin trite ine P. nigricapitatum, p. 246. 
(240) Pellorneum ruficeps ruficeps. 
Tub Sporrep BaBBLER. 
Pellorneum ruficeps Swains., F. Bor-Am., Birds, p. 487 (1831) 
(Nilgiris); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 141. 
Vernacular names. Adavi-lika-jittu (Tel.). 
Description. Forehead, crown and nape dull rufous; whole 
upper plumage and exposed parts of wings, sides of neck and tail 
olive-brown, the latter tipped with white; lores and an indistinet 
supercilium creamy-white; sides of the head rufous, paler than 
the crown and mottled with black round the eye, and the ear- 
coverts streaked with brown; chin, throat and cheeks white; 
lower plumage white or pale fulvous white boldly streaked with 
black on the breast and flanks and suffused with olivaceous on 
the latter and thighs; under tail-coverts olive-brown edged with 
white. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris red to crimson-lake, but cinnamon- 
brown in the young; upper mandible dark brown, lower white to 
fleshy-white; legs, feet and claws fleshy-white. 
