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Pellorneum ignotum, Sp. Nov. 



Like P. Tickelli, but markedly smaller, and chin, throat and upper breast 

 pure white and no fulvous on lower surface; wing, 225. 



There is a small very typical and dull colored Pellorneum, 

 apparently common about Dollah, near Suddya, at the extreme 

 eastern end of the Assam valley, which does not appear to have 

 been as yet described. 



My specimens are extremely indifferent ones, but bills, legs, 

 feet, and one wing in one specimen are intact, so that there is 

 no doubt, I think, as to the genus to which they should be 

 referred, though the tails are imperfect. So much of these as 

 remains agrees with that of Pellorneum. 

 Dimensions, (in the flesh) : — 



<j. Length, 5*7; expanse, 7*5 • wing, 2*25; tail, 2*15 ; 

 tarsus, 0'9 ; bill, straight from forehead, 0'6. 



In the skins, the upper mandible is blackish brown, the lower 

 horny white. The legs, feet, and claws are pale horny yellow. 



The entire upper surface is a deep rather rufescent olive 

 brown, much as in Pellorneum Tickelli, rather more decidedly 

 rufescent on the tail and outer webs of the quills. 



The chin, throat, upper breast and centre of lower breast and 

 upper abdomen are white without any fulvous tinge. 



The sides of the neck are like the back, but rather paler ; the 

 sides, flanks, lower abdomen, vent and lower tail-coverts similar, 

 but more and more rusty towards the lower tail-coverts. 

 The wing lining is dull white. 

 The inner webs of the quills are hair brown. 

 The lores are pale — in one pale yellowish, in another pale 

 greyish, brown. The ear-coverts are duller, perhaps a shade 

 greyer than the cheeks and sides of the neck > and are faintly 

 paler shafted. 



The bill, wings, and feet are typical; of the tails, T must speak 

 with some hesitation, as they are imperfect in my specimens, 

 which generally are so indifferent that, were the species not 

 very distinct from all that are known to me, I should have 

 hesitated to describe it from them. 



