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 Pellorneum pectoralis, God.-Aust. 



Head to nape dull dark chestnut ; back, wings, and tail umber- 

 brown, the last indistinctly barred and with narrow pale tips, 

 the outer primaries edged paler. Lores and frontal feathers 

 pale, tipped with pale black, extending as an obscure super- 

 cilium to the nape, where the feathers become broadly dingy 

 white on their upper web, dark brown on the lower, those on 

 the back of the neck are broadly black-centred. The ear- 

 coverts are umber-brown, darker behind, forming a crescentic 

 margin again bordered lighter. The chin is pure white for 

 three-quarters of an inch ; a dark gorget of broadly black- 

 centred feathers then crosses the upper breast, the centreing of 

 the feathers becoming very large, oblong, and conspicuous on 

 the elongate feathers of the sides of the neck, but paler and 

 less defined on the flanks. From the gorget all beneath is pale 

 rufescent ochre. The under tail-coverts are dark, bordered 

 with white. 



Legs pale ochre. Irides vermilion. 



Winer. Tail. Tarsus. Bill at front. 



$ 3-f? 30" M2" 070" 



$ 3-0 3-0 1-0 063 



Hab.— Saddya, Assam (M. J. OgleV 



This species is nearest and closely allied to Pellorneum man- 

 dellii, W. Blanford, described from Darjeeling, which is the 

 same as Hodgson's P. nipalensis, a MS. name never published. 

 It is a larger bird as regards wing, and the legs are more 

 robust. The principal difference lies in the far larger extent of 

 the dark streaking on the sides of the neck : the dark centred 

 feathers are longer and broader than in P. mandellii, the black 

 oblong spots being 04 in. by l - 3 in. in this new form as 

 against (T"3 by 10, while those on the upper nape are bordered 

 with white above ; the top of the head is dark chestnut, opposed 

 to a dull rufous umber in the Darjeeling species. Yet the 

 greatest departure is in the abrupt termination of the white chin 

 succeeded by the ochraceous tint of the rest of the under parts, 

 while the black centreings of the feathers are so broad and 

 closely distributed as to form a decided dark gorget, whence 

 they spread away down the sides of the breast. The feathers 

 of the head and nape are more lengthened and fuller than in the 

 other species. 



