284 NOTES ON A NEW DUMETICOLA AND ON TRIBURA 



with tawny rufous ; tips pale fulvous ; rectrices underneath 

 ashy brown ; a bold black bar or spot near the end of each 

 feather, which is terminated with pale fulvous ; lores, chin, 

 cheeks, throat, and remaining under surface fulvous white, more 

 or less tinged on the breast with pale rufous ; upper mandible 

 dark brown ; under mandible yellowish at base ; legs reddish 

 yellow ; bill from forehead § of an inch ; tarsus f ; tail 2| ; wing 

 l-f-£. In another example the rectrices above want the pale 

 terminal fringe. 



Obtained at Debroogur. 



This very distinct species, in its style of coloration, greatly 

 resembles Graminicola bengalensis, Jerd. Dr. Jerdon informs 

 me that it occurs all through Assam, but only in dense long- 

 grass.—^. $ M. S. H., 1871, p. 241. 



Uotes (W a uefo §untcticola t aub on ftribura Iuteobentra, 

 Pobgson, anb Dumeticola aftttts, Poison. 



By W. Edwin Brooks. 



Two examples of a Dumeticola, sent to me by my friend 

 Mandelli as D. brunneipectus, Blyth (which latter, by-the-bye, 

 appears to me only to be unspotted D. affinis) belong to a new 

 species. He asks me to describe this new bird, and I therefore 

 do so as 



Dumeticola Mandelli, N. Sp* 



Mandelli's Dumeticola has the upper surface reddish brown, 

 redder even than Tribura luteoventris ; wings dark brown, with 

 their coverts, primaries, secondaries, and tertials edged with 

 rufous brown ; tail dark brown, obsoletely rayed, and having 

 narrow rufous edges ; lores, and appai'ently a narrow superci- 

 lium, greyish white ; cheeks and ear-coverts, light brown, the 

 feathers being light shafted, giving the appearance of narrow 

 light streaks ; chin, throat, and upper breast, white, shaded into 

 light dusky brown or brownish grey on the breast ; the throat 

 of one has a narrow brown streak or spot occupying the centre 

 of each feather ; while that of the other is nearly plain white ; 

 the dusky breast of each bird is shaded off into pure white on 

 the abdomen ; sides of breast, and flanks, dull rufous brown ; 

 region of vent pale brown, with whitish edges to the feathers ; 

 lower tail-coverts, which reach to within an inch from end of 

 tail, of a darker brown (non-rufous), and broadly tipped with 

 dull white, locustelle-like ; under-surface of tail feathers dark 

 brown ; tibial feathers light brown on outside, but cream coloured 



* I may be in error, but I bave many specimens of this species, both males and 

 females, and it appears to me to be i>. brtmneipeetm, Blyth, — Ed. 



