Genus PELLOENEUM. 

 Bill longer than in the last, straighter ; the nostrils more linear; rictal bristles feeble. 

 Wings rounded ; the 5th, 6th, and 7th quills nearly equal and longest. Tail not shorter than 

 the wing, rounded at the tip and graduated. Tarsus lengthened, its scales obsolete ; toes stout, 

 the lateral ones subequal. 



PELLOENEUM FUSCICAPILLUM. 



(THE WHISTLING QUAKER-THRUSH.) 

 (Peculiar to Ceylon.) 



Lrymocataphus fuscocapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1S49, xviii. p. 815 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. 340 (1849); Kelaart, Prodrornus, Cat. p. 122 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1853, xii. p. 269. 

 Pellomeum fuscocapillum, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 301. 

 Drymocataphus fuscicapillus, Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 447 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 19, et 



1875, pp. 393, 410. 

 Batitchia, Sinhalese. 



3 . Supra brunneus, supracaudalibus paullo rufescentibus : alis brunneis, tectricibus et remigibus angustissime rufes- 

 centi margiuatis : rectricibus brumieis, extimis rufescenti temiinatis : pileo nigricanti-brunneo, fronte vix 

 rufescente lavata, scapis pluraarum omnium rufescentibus : loris, supercilio distincto, facie laterali et colli 

 lateribus, et corpore subtus toto cervinis, abdomine pallidiore fulvescente, hypochondriis brunneo lavatis : sub- 

 alaribus pectori concoloribus : remigibus infra brunneis, intiis rufescenti lavatis : rostro saturate brunneo, man- 

 dibula carnea : pedibus rufescenti-carneis : iride rufescenti-brunnea. 



Adult male and female. Length 6 - 4 to 6-8 inches ; wing 2-5 to 2-8 ; tail 2-4 to 2-6 ; tarsus 1-0 to 1-1 ; mid toe 0-7 to 



075 ; claw (straight) 03 ; bill to gape 08 to 085. 

 Iris varying from light reddish to dark red ; eyelid olivaceous ; bill, upper mandible deep brown with a pale margin, 



lower flesh-colour ; legs and feet brownish fleshy, toes darker than tarsi, claws pale brownish. 



There are two races of this little bird in Ceylon — a dark and a pale, the latter inhabiting the north of the island only, 

 the former being found in the south-west and central portions of the island. 



Baric race. Forehead, crown, nape, and upper part of hind neck dark glossy sepia, almost black, the feathers with 

 fulvous shafts ; lower part of hind neck, back, wings, and tail brownish olivaceous, with pale shafts to the feathers 

 of the back ; wing-coverts edged fulvous ; outer primaries with pale edges ; tail tipped with fulvous, most 

 deeply on the lateral feathers ; lores, supercilium, face and throat, and all beneath light sienna-brown, palest on 

 the chin and abdomen, and with flanks dusky : the cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck of a deeper or more 

 rufous hue than the throat. 



Birds from the Southern and Central Province districts, which constitute the dark race, vary very much in depth of 

 colouring. Some have the head very dark and the feathers of the back dark-edged, the entire plumage being 

 at the same time of a deeper hue ; in such examples the feathers at the sides of the chest are centred with brown. 



Pale, race (from the whole of the northern and north-eastern parts of the island). The head and nape are light 

 sepia-brown, with the edges of the feathers distinctly darker ; the upper surface, wings, and tail pale olivaceous, 

 with a greyish hue, and the shafts of the clothing-feathers very light ; the wing-coverts and rectrices more 

 conspicuously tipped, and the under surface very pale throughout. 



Young. Birds of the year have the iris browner than adults, and the rump paler than the back i the drop-marks on 

 the sides of the chest are likewise more distinct, and the tail but faintly tipped fulvous. 



