PELLORNEUM. 



The eggs, two in number, are pinkish white, handsomely spotted and streaked 

 with reddish brown. Nest is made exactly like that of Otocompsa emeria, and 

 generally placed about four feet from the ground. He has taken its nest in 

 March as well as in November, and has never seen it in the low country 

 around Salem. 



Hume, in his Nests and Eggs of Indian .Birds, quotes Miss Cockburn, who 

 writes from Kotagherry to the effect that the species is exceedingly shy, and 

 that three nests were found in the months of March and April. The description 

 and situation of the nests are the same nearly as those of other species of the 

 genus. The number of eggs was three; one which Mr. Hume received, he 

 says, was a moderately broad oval ; the ground colour a slightly greenish white, 

 and the whole surface of the egg excessively finely freckled, and speckled 

 with black or pale purplish grey, and a more or less rufous brown. It 

 measured O-88 X 0-65 . 



606. Pellorneum subochracenm, Swinh., Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist. (4) vii. p. 257; Blanf. Sir. F. 1872, p. 87; Jerd., Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 300 ; Tweed., Ibis, 1877, pp. 380.452, pi. x. ; Hume and Davidson, Sir. F. 

 1878, pp. 278, 514; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 61-96; Bingham, Sir. F. 1880, 

 p. 180; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 521. Pellorneum Tickelli, Blanf., 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 87 (nee Blyth); Wald. in Blyths B. Burm. p. 115. Pellorneum 

 minor, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 298 ; Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 120; Hume, i.e. 

 p. 121 ; Blyth, and Wald., B. Burm. p. 114; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 154. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps (non Sykes), Blyth, B. Burm. p. 114. The BURMESE 

 STRIATED GROUND-BABBLER. 



Entire head above to the nape bright chestnut, the feathers of the forehead 

 with mesial black shaft streaks ; lores fulvous white, the feathers also dark 

 shafted ; superciliary stripe reaching to the nape creamy buff, a few feathers 

 just over the eye tipped with black ; feathers under the eye, also the ear coverts, 

 fulvous, the latter washed with dusky olive on their hind margin ; cheeks 

 the same ; chin and throat pure white ; sides of the neck slightly streaked 

 with ashy olive margins to the feathers; under surface of the body light 

 fulvous or ochraceous buff, the feathers of the breast and sides of the 

 body with a central narrow streak of brown, narrower on the breast than 

 on the sides ; middle of abdomen spotless ; under tail coverts fulvous, with 

 large central streaks of brown ; axillaries and under wing coverts light tawny 

 buff ; upper plumage, including the wings and tail, olive brown ; the outer 

 webs of the primaries lighter and tinged with ochraceous ; upper tail coverts 

 tinged with rufous ; tail barred across under certain lights and narrowly 

 fringed with fulvous at the tip ; upper mandible dark brown, the lower yellow 

 at base, changing to light brown at the tip ; eyelids greenish ; legs light 

 brownish yellow. 



Le?igth.6'z > inches; wing 2-55 to 2-6; tail 2-45 to 27; tarsus 0'95 to 

 ro ; culmen 07. 

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