146 CEATEKOPODID^;. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage olive-brown tinged with 

 rufous ; the outer webs of the wing-quills more rufous ; chin and 

 throat white ; remaining lower plumage bright ferruginous, the 

 centre of the abdomen albescent. 



Iris light brown ; bill blackish brown above, pale below, yellowish 

 at gape ; legs dull pinkish white ( Wardlaw liamsay). 



Length about 7; tail 2'6; wing 3'1 ; tarsus 1-3; bill from 

 gape "95. 



Distribution. The only two specimens of this species known were 

 procured by Wardlaw Earn say in Karennee, and are now in the 

 British Museum. They appear to be not quite adult. 



151. Drymocataphus tickelli. TidceUs Babbler. 



Pellorneum tickelli, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii,p. 414 (1859) ; Hume, 



S. F. i, p. 299, iii, p. 119 ; Gates, S. F. iv, p. 406 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 



1877, pp. 386, 451; Hume, Ibis, ]878, p. 114; Hume $ Dav. 



S. F. vi, pp. 277, 514 ; Hume, Cat. no. 399 ter ; id. S. F. xi ; p. 144. 

 Mixornis olivaceus, Tick. J. A. S. B. xxviii, p. 449 (1859). 

 Trichastoma minor, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 5o5 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, 



p. 259; Hume, Cat. no. 387 bis ; Bingham, 8. F. ix, p. 179. 

 Turdinus garoensis, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 160, 



pi. viii (1874) ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 393 ; id. Cat. no. 390 sept. ; id. 



S. F. xi, p. 140. 

 Drymocataphus fulvus, Wald. A. M. N. II. (4) xv, p. 401 (1875) ; 



Hume, S. F. iii, p. 403, v, p. 59. 

 Drymocataphus tickelli (Blyth}, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 452, pi. xi, 



fig. 1 ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 64 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 557 ; Oates 



m Humes N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, p. 103. 



Fig. 41. Head of D. tickelli. 



Coloration. Whole upper plumage fulvescent olive-brown ; the 

 forehead more distinctly fulvous, the feathers of the crown pale- 

 shafted ; tail slightly rufescent ; lores, a very indistinct eyebrow, 

 and the feathers round the eye pale fulvous ; ear-coverts fulvous 

 brown with pale shafts ; sides of neck similar to the back but 

 slightly paler ; cheeks and entire lower plumage uniform fulvous, 

 with the very faintest indications of stripes on the throat and 

 breast ; centre of abdomen albescent *. 



* After examining all the specimens of birds in the Hume and Tweeddale 

 collections, as well as others lent me by Godwin-Austen, which have a bearing 

 on the identity of D. tickelli, I am of the same opinion as Sharpe and I arrived 

 at some years ago he when writing the seventh volume of the ' Catalogue,' 

 and I when writing the ' Birds of Burmah.' This conclusion is briefly that 

 Trichastoma minc-r of Hume is the same bird as Pellorneum tickelli of Blyth. 



