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dealt with by those gentlemen under the title of Trichastoma minor (t. c. 
p. 259). Mr. Hume, contrary to his usual practice, gives no details of this 
interesting bird_, the rarity of which may be judged from the fact that 
Mr. Davison procured only one specimen in Tenasserim during many 
years' collecting. 
I have not been able to examine the types of Pellorneum ignotum, Hume, 
Turdinus garoensis, Godwin- Austen, and T. nagaensis, Godwin-Austen ; 
they are all very similar, and are probably identical with P. tickelli, Mr. 
Hume, indeed (S. E. vii. p. 143), identifies T. garoensis with P. ignotum-, 
and a specimen from Assam of what I believe to be the latter species, and 
which I had the opportunity of examining, did not appear to me to differ in 
any respect from P. tickelli, except in having the upper plumage darker. 
Tickell's Ground-Babbler occurs plentifully on the eastern spurs of the 
Pegu hills in those portions which are covered with evergreen forest. Mr. 
Davison states that it is met with in the central and southern portions of 
Tenasserim, and he procured specimens from Thoungya Sakan down to 
Laynah. Capt. Bingham observed it in the Meplay choung, a tributary of 
the Thoungyeen river. Mr. Limborg also secured specimens near Meetan. 
Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay obtained this species in Karennee at an elevation 
of 2500 feet, and his specimens were described under the name of Drymo- 
cataphus fulvus. 
Mr. Hume states that this species occurs in Assam, from which pro- 
vince he sent me a specimen. This Assam bird, however, does not 
appear to agree well with the Burmese bird. 
This obscure Babbler is found frequenting the ground in brushwood and 
tangled thickets in the deepest valleys. Although confined (as far as my 
own observations go) to evergreen jungle, Mr. Davison appears to have 
observed them also in bamboo- and secondary scrub- jungle. I have no 
recollection of having heard its note; but Mr. Davison assures us it 
resembles that of Turdinus abbotti. Capt. Bingham found the nest in the 
Thoungyeen valley on the 15th March — a domed structure placed in a cane- 
bush about one foot from the ground. It was made of dry bamboo-leaves 
and lined with fine roots, and contained three eggs which were white dotted 
with pink. 
67. DRYMOCATAPHUS RUBIGINOSUS. 
THE RUFOUS GROUND-BABBLER. 
Trichastoma rubiginosa, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 402 ; id. in Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 115 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 404, viii. p. 95. Drymocataphus rubigi- 
nosus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 
Description. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, the wings rufescent 
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