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615 Drymocataphus Assamensis, Sharpe, CatB. Br. Mus. 



vii. p. 557. Pellorneum Tickellii (iwn Blytfi), Hume and Dav., S/r. F. 1878, 

 pp. 277, 514; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 143, note; id. Ibis, 1878, p. 114; id., 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 96. Turdinus garoensis, ad., <*> Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. 

 xlv. p. 75 ; Oates, B. Br. Burnt, i. p. 65. SHARPE'S ASSAM GROUND-BABBLER. 



Adult male. (Dikrang Valley.) Above dark brown with pale shaft streaks to 

 the feathers of the head and mantle ; forepart of crown rather lighter with 

 distinct yellowish buff shaft streaks ; rump with scarcely perceptible shaft 

 lines ; wing coverts like the back, the greater series externally more fulvous 

 brown ; primary coverts blackish, externally washed with fulvous, forming a 

 small wing patch ; quills blackish, their outer webs deep fulvous brown with 

 pale shafts ; tail feathers dusky brown, externally washed with dark fulvous 

 brown ; lores ashy fulvous mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; plumes 

 round the eye ashy fulvous, ashy grey on the hinder margin ; a slight shade of 

 ashy grey above the ear coverts, not pronounced enough to form an eye-brow ; 

 ear coverts dark brown with paler fulvous shaft lines ; cheeks pale fulvous 

 brown, slightly mottled with dusky tips to the feathers ; under surface pale 

 fulvous brown with dusky brown streaks on the throat and cheeks; centre of 

 breast and abdomen creamy white; flanks and sides of body dark olive brown, 

 the thighs a little more fulvescent ; under tail coverts pale fulvous ; under 

 wing coverts and axillaries light fulvous brown ; bill dark brown above, pale 

 grey below; legs and feet very pale flesh colour ; iris brown. {Sharpe) 



Length. 5-5 inches; wing 2*5 ; tail 2- 1 ; tarsus 1-15 ; culmen ^'6. (Mus. 

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



Ilab. Hills of Assam and North-Easter n Bengal. 



There appears to be only a single adult & skin of this species in the British 

 Museum, collected by Mr. Cockburn at Dhollah in Assam, and presented to 

 it by Mr. E. W. Gates. 



616. Drymocataphus Tickelli (Blyth), Tweed, Ibis, 1877, p. 451, 



pi. xi. fig. a; Oafes, B. Br. Burm, i. p. 64; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mns. 

 vii. p. 558. Pellorneum Tickellii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 414; Tickell, 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 113; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 299 (note) ; Gates, Str. F. 1875, 

 p. 119; id. 1876, p. 406 ; Godwin- Austen, Ibis, 1878, p. 115. Trichastoma 

 minor, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 535; Wald. in Blyth's B. Burm. p. 115; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 59; id. and Damson, Str. F. 1878, p. 259; id., Ibis 

 1878, p. 114; Godw.-Aust., t. c. p. 115. Turdinus garoensis, Godw.-Ausf. 

 J. A. S. ^.xliii. p. 160, pi. viii. (1874) ; Hume, Str. F- 1875, p. 396 ; id., 1878, 

 p. 514. Drymocataphus fulvous, Wald. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 401 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 403, Alcippe Tickelli, Godw.-Aust., Pr. A. S.Seng. 

 xlvi. p. 146. Trichastoma minus, Tweed., Ibis, 1877, p. 385 ; Godw.-Aust., 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 115 ; Hume, Str. F 1879, p 95. TICKELL'S GROUND-BABBLER. 



