298 KoveLties. — Pellorneum minor. 



The females are somewhat darker and greener^ or more 

 olivaceous^ both on breast and upper parts^ than the males. 



This is, I believe, the bird which, with only a single specimen 

 before him, Mr. Ball thought might be the young of 

 B. melanocephalus , but with three males and two females, all 

 good specimens, and all apparently adults, to judge from, I 

 think there can be no doubt, that we have here a distinct, 

 though doubtless representative species. 



This bird appears to be common about Port Mouat and 

 Mount Harriet in the Andamans. 



Pellorneum minor, ^S'p. 'Sov. 



Very similar to P. ruficeps, Swainson, and P. Mandellii, Blanford, but 

 smaller ; wing, barely 2"5 ; bill at front, 0'5, and slender. 



This new species of Pellorneum which I received in a col- 

 lection of birds from Thayetmyo, from Capt. Feilden, makes the 

 sixth (or perhaps more properly the fifth) species of this genus, 

 with which I am acquainted. These are first F. ruficeps, Sw., 

 of Southern India, (Jerdon 399, vol. II., p. 27), second 

 P. Mandellii^ Blanford, (J. A. S. B., 1872, vol. XLL, p. 165). 



Thirdly, we have the present species which closely resembles 



* As the Indian Ornithologists Library usually begins and ends with 

 Jerdon's birds of India, I propose, whenever mentioning for the first time birds 

 occurring anywhere in India or its dependencies not described by Dr. Jerdon, 

 to give descriptions of these. Mr. Blanford thus described PELLORNEUM. 

 MANBELLIL 



P. peraffine, P. ruficepi. Swains., sed staturd minori, collo postico et late- 

 rali maculis fuscis magnis signato, maculis pectoralibus majoribus et satura- 

 tiorihus. Long, aloe, 2"65; caudce, 2'5 ; tarsi. 0'95; rostri a fronte, 0*6; a rictv, 

 0!75 unc. 



Crown of head and nape, ferruginous ; lores, over and under the eye, pale 

 pinkish isabelline; most of the feathers of the forehead, lores, and supercilia 

 with slight dusky tips; ear coverts, pale rufous brown, also with dark tips; 

 back of the neck isabelline, or pale brown, each feather with a large dusky 

 spot, frequently confined to one web ; mantle and tail, brownish olive, all the rec- 

 trices except the centre ones with narrow pale tips ; quills hair brown margined 

 with brownish olive externally, internally, like the lining of the wing, pale brown. 

 Chin and upper throat, pure white; remainder of lower parts, isabelline; breast and 

 sides of neck with large elongated dusky spots ; flanks also spotted, but the spots 

 are paler; abdomen, unspotted. Bill, dusky above, pale below; legs very pale 

 coloured. 



This species difEers from P. ruficeps, Swains., and P. Tichelli, Blyth, (J. A. 

 S. ti., 1859, Vol. XXVIII., p. 414 ; = P. suhocJiraceum, Swiuhoe, A. and M. N. 

 H., April, 1871, p. 257), by having the neck spotted all round and by the spots 

 in front being much deeper and darker. In size, it resembles P. TickeUi, being 

 smaller than x'. ruficeps. 



