140 CRATEROPODID^E. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Mantle streaked. 



'. Forehead and eyebrow with black 



shaft-streaks . . . P. mandeUii, p. 140. 



b'. Forehead and eyebrow with only a few 



black specks at the ends of the feathers. P. minus, p. 141. 



b. Mantle not streaked. 



c. Breast boldly streaked with brown. 



a". Crown rufous P. ntficeps, p. 141. 



b". Crown chestnut P. subochraceum, p. 142. 



c". Crown brown P. palustre, p. 143. 



d\ Breast with only a few obsolete stripes 

 at the sides. 



d". Throat and breast brown P. fuscicapillum, p. 143. 



e". Throat and breast white P. ignotum, p. 144. 



142. Pellorneum mandellii. Mandelli's Spotted Babbler. 



Hemipteron nipalense, Hodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844, 



desc. null.} ; Hume, S. F. \ p. 493. 

 Pellorneum mandellii, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 165, pi. vii 



(1872) ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 298 note ; id. S. F. xi, p. 144 j Gates in 



Hume's N. fy R 2nd ed. i, p. 99. 

 Pellorneum nipalense (Hodgs.), Hume, N. $ E. p. 248 ; Blanf. S. F. 



viii, p. 181 ; Hume, S. F. viii, p. 188 ; id. Cat. no. 399 bis ; Shai-pe, 



Cat. B. M. vii, p. 518. 

 Pellorneum pectoralis, Godwin-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. ii, p. 41 



(1877) ; Hume, S, F. v, p. 340 ; id. Cat. no. 399 sept. 



Fig. 40. Head of P. mandellii. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, arid nape rufous-brown ; the 

 feathers of the forehead with black shaft-streaks ; a line from the 

 forehead over the eye white, with the tips of the feathers black ; 

 this line produced to the nape and uniform creamy-white behind ; 

 ear-coverts rufous, margined below by a narrow dusky line ; chin, 

 throat, and cheeks white ; the feathers of the hind neck and sides 

 of the neck with the outer webs blackish, the inner creamy yellow; 

 back, wing- and tail-coverts and tertiaries olive-brown with paler 

 margins ; rump and tail plain olive-brown, the latter very deli- 

 cately tipped with whitish ; wing-feathers dark brown, the outer 

 webs the colour of the back, and those of the earlier primaries 

 tinged with grey ; lower plumage fulvous, the breast, sides of body, 

 and under tail-coverts with large black streaks ; centre of abdomen 

 streakless ; sides of body and flanks olivaceous. 



