176 Ornithological Notes, chiefly on some birds [No. 3, 



pennis fusco centralis, abdomine subcaudalibusque ferrugineis. Statura 

 ab ilia. T. Jerdoni non discrepante. 



Habitat in montibus Pulney, Indies meridionalis. Detexit S. Fair- 

 bank. 



Head above dark brown, the margin of tbe colour distinct and not 

 passing into anything else on tbe nape, bnt distinctly contrasting 

 with tbe olive colouring of the back ; lores, which are small, and a 

 narrow streak running back from the eye dusky ; supercilia and orbi- 

 tal feathers white ; back olive, rather lighter towards the rump, wings 

 and tail rather darker. Beneath the chin and throat with the sides of 

 the head below the eyes rather pale grey, the feathers of middle of 

 the breast the same but with dark stripes in the centre ; sides of the 

 neck ashy, this colour passing far back close to the dark brown of the 

 head ; whole abdomen and lower tail coverts ferruginous, flanks 

 and thigh coverts olivaceous. 



Beak dusky, legs dark plumbeous. Dimensions the same as those 

 of T. Jerdoni, wing 3.4, tail 3.7, bill at front 0.7 inch. 



In Proc. Z. S. for 1867, p. 834, I mentioned my impression that the 

 grey-breasted Trochalopteron of the Pulney hills collected by Mr. 

 Fairbank was distinct from T. Jerdoni from the Wynaad. This im- 

 pression was due to some slight differences from the description in 

 Jerdon's Birds of India, and also to the a priori probability that two 

 birds living on isolated hill ranges would prove distinct, since the 

 intervening range of the Nilgiris in which neither are found, is in- 

 habited by the very different T. cachinnans. Unfortunately the 

 specimen of T. Jerdoni which formerly existed in the Asiatic Society's 

 Museum has disappeared, and I am unable to make a direct compari- 

 son, but in a drawing which Dr. Jerdon shewed me the other day, 

 T. Jerdoni is represented with a distinct black chin like cachinnans, 

 of which there is not a trace in T. Fairbanhi. The other differences 

 to which I alluded are the head being dusky above instead of bluish, 

 and distinctly separated from the olivaceous back instead of passing 

 into dull ashy on the nape ; the centre of the breast being paler in the 

 Pulney species, and the rufous colouring of the parts extending to the 

 under tail coverts, which, in T. Jerdoni, are olivaceous like the flanks. 

 Another distinction appears to be indicated by the drawing, viz. that 

 in T. Jerdoni, the grey extends much further down the breast, and 



