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the two preceding- in tlie general tone of plumage ; but which 

 has a bill as slender as rujiceps, and considerably shorter than 

 that of Mandellii. This forms one sub-group. 



Then we have fourth P.palustre, Jerdon^ recently described by 

 myself, Stray Feathers^ No. I., p. 4, and I understand figured by 

 Mr. Gould's Birds of Asia, pt. XXIV. Fifth Pellornemi TlckeUi-\ 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B.,1859, voh XXVIII., p. 414, from Amherst, 

 Tenasserira Provinces, and sixth, P. fuscocapilltimX Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B., 1849, vol. XVIII., p. 815, which latter should however, I 

 think, remain under Bryfyiocatapli'm. 



Our present bird is about 5*5 in length ; wing, 2-45 ; tail 

 from vent, about 2*5 ; bill at front, 0'5 ; tarsus, 1 ; exterior tail 

 feathers, 0"55, shorter than central ones. 



Bill, upper mandible, blackish brown; entire lower mandible, 

 fleshy yellow. 



Chin, throat, middle of abdomen, pure white; a band across 

 breast, sides and flanks, fulvous ; the feathers with narrow central 

 brown streaks, paler, and less numerous than in either ruficeps or 

 Mandellii ; forehead, crown of the head, and occiput, chesnut, paler 



t Mr. Blyth thus described : 



" Pellorneum TiCEEiiLi, nobis, n. s., smaller than P. ruficeps, but absolutely- 

 typical in structure ; colour uniform brown above, much paler and tinged with 

 rufous below ; the middle of the belly, pure white ; frontal and loral feathers, pale 

 centred, more or less. Upper mandible, pale dusky, the lower, whitish or probably 

 pale corneous, as are also the legs; irides, sepia ; length, Si^inchj of wing, 2j 

 inch, and tail 2 inch ; bill to gape, f inch, and tarsi 1 in. 



Col. Tickell, the discoverer of this bird, but whose specimens arrived in Cal- 

 cutta a mail before his paper describing them, and which Mr. Blyth through 

 some mistake proceeded to name and publish at once, thus descril)es the same 

 species. 



" Spec. Male Woods of Teewaphado, 1,100 to 1,500 feet. February 24th, 1859. 



Dimensions. — " Length 5| inch ; wing, 2| inch ; tail, 2 Jg- in. ; bill, ^ inch ; tarsus, 

 1 inch ; mid toe, ^a '^^• 



" Details. — Typical, but it carries a straighter and better raised tail than the 

 type M. chloris, which gives it a more Sylvian than Timalian look. 



" Color M. and P. ; iris, blood red brown ; bill horny, with dusky culmen ; 

 legs and chnvs, fleshy horn. All upper parts, reddish olive-brown ; wing and tail 

 quills, burnt umbre-brown ; edge reddish. Frontals and face, paler and tinged 

 fulvous. All lower parts from chin, clear pale fulvous, mesiaUy albescent except 

 on breast. 



" Not uncommon in the hill forests, frequenting bamboos and underwood ; man- 

 ners active and restless — silent" 



X The Ceylon species PELLORNEUM FUSCOCAPILLUM, Mr. Blyth thus 

 describes : 



" Like Drymoeataphiis nigo'ocapitatus, but the supercilia, uniform with the 

 lores, ear-coverts, sides of neck, throat, and entire uiiderparts, pale ferruginous- 

 brown, a little deeper on the breast; coronal feathers, dark brown, margined with 

 dusky -black, and pale-shafted ; rest of the' upper-parts, uniform greyish olive- 

 brown; the primaries margined paler, and the extreme tips of the tail featlier^ ru- 

 fescent. Bill, pale ; the upper mandible dusky, and feet pale. Length about 64 

 in. ; the wing 2| in.; and tail, 2^ in. ; bill to gape, ^f in. ; and tarsi 1 in. 



"Inhabits Ceylon." 



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