244 NOTES ON AND ADDITIONS TO CEYLONESE AVI-FAUNA, 
Oreocincla pectoralis, NV. Sp.* 
Dimensions.—Length, 8"°35; wing, 4"°7; tail, 3"0; tarsus, 
1""1; mid toe and claw, 11"5; hind toe, 05; claw straight, 
0-35 ; billto gape, 1°15. The billis long and turdulus-like, but 
not so massive in its conformation as that of O. nilgherriensis. 
Soft parts.—Iris brown (?) ; bill dusky ; gape and base of 
lower mandible yellowish ; legs and feet dusky yellowish ; claws 
yellowish, with dusky tips. These are the soft parts as taken 
from the dry skin, 
Description.—Above deep olivaceous brown, slightly greenish 
on the rump and upper tail coverts, the lower feathers of which 
latter are tipped white; on the head and hind neck the feathers 
are dark shafted, and the brownish olivaceous of the sides of 
the neck spreads over the chest and lower throat ; wings dark 
brown, the greater coverts and secondaries with their outer 
webs olivaceous brown, and the coverts with an angular terminal 
* TI cannot at all make out this species; it might possibly I thought be 
O. Gregoriana, Nevil, but the bill in that is decidedly more massive, though shorter 
than in that of O. nilgherriensis, which latter in its bill at any rate shows a strong 
affinity to Zoothera. Ihave referred to O. Gregoriana before Vol. I, p. 437, but I 
* do not know that any full description of it has yet been published, and I therefore 
subjoin one :— Length, 9”; wing, 5’; tail, 2°73; tarsus, 1/”1; bill from forehead to point, 
0:95 ; from gape, 1735. 
The whole top and back of the head, back of the neck, back rump, and upper tail 
coverts a very rich olive brown, with a distinct rufescent tinge, feeblest on the 
rump and upper tail coverts, all the feathers pale shafted, and each of them with 
a conspicuous black tipping or terminal bar, the bars being so close together on the 
head that the black there predominates. 
The lores, cheeks, ear coverts, chin, throat, sides of the neck fulvous, the feathers 
of the cheeks, ear coverts, and side of the neck with black terminal spots, and a few 
faint traces of similar spots on the throat; a narrow conspicuous black collar divides 
off the chin and throat from the breast ; breast and entire lower parts a very rich 
warm buff, all the feathers except those of the lower tail coverts, with a conspicuous 
black margin; those of the sides of the breast somewhat shaded with olive. 
The wings a very deep brown; the quills tinged with rusty olive on their 
outer webs, the primary greater coverts tipped with blackish brown and with a broad 
sub-terminal rufous buff band; the rest of the greater and the median coverts 
tipped with this very same rufous buff, which in the case of the median coverts run 
somewhat up the shafts. The lesser coverts suffused at the tips with reddish 
olivaceous and with rufous buff shafts. 
The four central tail feathers, and the exterior pair on either side plain olive 
brown; the rest of the feathers blackish brown, more or less tipped paler. 
All over the back the bases of the feathers, where they show through, are less 
rufescent than the tipsimmediately preceding the black tipping, so as to produce the 
effect of a second rufescent band inside the black tipping. 
This is a very distinct species sent to me by Mr. Nevil as O. Gregoriana, Nevil, of 
Ceylon, but 1 see from the ticket that it was obtained from Messrs. White & Co., of 
Kandy, and there is therefore I fear no guarantee any more than in the case of Batrachos- 
tomus punctatus that the specimen ever really was procured in Ceylon. To me the bird 
seems like a small very rufescent edition of Oreocincla malayanus, Sund. (varius 
apud Horsf). I note especially in the axilla the brush of silky white feathers, broadly 
tipped with black, which is noticed by MHorsfield as a characteristic of the 
Javan bird. 
I have to add that I have now strong doubts whether the Phodilus badius, also 
sent me by Mr. Nevil as killed in Ceylon, but whieh likewise was procured from 
Messrs. White & Co., was ever killed there atall. I must leave it to Captain Legge 
to try and get the truth about these skins out of Messrs. White & Co,—Eb., S, F. 
