DRYMOCATAt-'HUS, 143 



613. Drymocataphus nigricapitatus (Eyton\ Biyth, j. A. 



8. B. xviii. p. 815; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 273; Salvad, Ucc. Born. 

 p. 219; Tweed* Ibis, 1877, p. 308; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, p. 275 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, pp. 6l, 96 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 511.; Gates, B. Br. 

 Bunn. i. p. 64 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 554. Brachypteryx 

 nigrocapitata, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103; Biyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. 

 P- 3^5- The BLACK-HEADED GROUND-BABBLER. 



Upper plumage including the wings and tail rufous brown ; inner webs 

 of quills plain brown, the tail with chestnut margins, the mantle with indistinct 

 pale shafts ; crown of the head and nape, also a moustacial stripe black ; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, eyebrow, sides of the face, and ear coverts ashy 

 grey, streaked with white shaft lines ; ear coverts washed with rufous ; sides 

 of the neck, hinder cheeks and under surface of the body orange rufous or 

 ferruginous; forepart of cheeks, chin and throat white; thighs, flanks and 

 under tail coverts with a shade of olive brown ; under wing coverts light 

 orange ; legs and feet fleshy white ; irides rhubarb red. 



Length. 6-5 to 7 inches; tail 2-25 to 27; wing 2-4 to 2-65; tarsus i'2; 

 culm en 0-7. 



Hab. The Malayan peninsula, straggling into Sumatra and the southern 

 portions of Tenasserim, at Bankasoon and Malewoon It occurs either singly 

 or in pairs. Davison says they are shy birds, frequenting only the densest 

 portions of the forest, and especially cane-brakes. They feed on insects. Nothing 

 whatever is known of their nidification. 



614. DrymOCataphUS ignotUS (Hume), Sharpe, Cat.B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 556. Pellorneurn ignotum, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 334 ; id., Sir. F. 

 1878, p. 143; id., Sir. F. 1879, P- 96- Turdinus nagaensis, Godwin-Austen, 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat Hist. (4) xx. p. 5 19 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1878, p. 143, note. 

 HUME'S GROUND-BABBLER. 



Adult male. (Naga Hills; type of T. nagaensis). Above uniform dark 

 brown of rather a reddish tint ; the lesser and median wing coverts like the 

 back; greater coverts and quills dusky brown, externally like the back; tail 

 feathers brown; over the eye apparently a paler shade of ashy whitish ; ear coverts 

 and sides of the face brown ; throat conspicuously white, with scarcely per- 

 ceptible dusky tips to some of the feathers ; foreneck and breast olive fulvous 

 brown, with slight fulvescent shaft streaks ; centre of breast and of abdomen 

 white ; sides of the body more fulvescent brown, inclining to tawny on the 

 lower flanks and thighs, and deepening perceptibly on the under tail coverts ; 

 under wing coverts and axillaries fulvous brown ; quills dusky brown below, 

 pale ashy rufous along the inner web. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 4-4 inches; wing 2 - 2 ; tail 2; tarsus O'9 ; culmen O'6. (Mus. 

 H. H. Godwin- Austen, ex. Sharpe, Cat B. Br, Mus.) 



Hal>. Hills of North-Eastern Bengal. 



