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BIRDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
on the outer webs ; chin and throat white ; the whole lower plumage bright 
ferruginous. 
Iris light brown ; bill blackish brown above^ pale below,, yellowish at 
gape ; legs dull pinkish white. 
Length about 7 inches^ tail 2*6^ wing 3*1^ tarsus 1'3, bill from gape '95. 
The only specimens of this species which are known are two in the 
collection of Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, who procured them in Karennee. 
They appear to be young birds, and the bills seem to have been soft and 
not fully matured. They nevertheless clearly belong to this genus and 
not to Trichostoma, 
Nothing is known of the habits of this species. The colour of the soft 
parts is noted from the label attached to one of the Karennee specimens. 
Genus PELLORNEUM, Sxvains. 
68. PELLORNEUM SUBOCHEACEUM. 
THE BURMESE STRIATED GROUND-BABBLER. 
Pellorneum subochraceum, Sioinhoe, Ami. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vii. p. 257 ; Tiveedd. 
Ibis, 1877, pp. 385, 452, pi. x. ; Hume ^ Bav, S. F. vi. p. 278 ; Hwne, S. F. viii. 
p. 96. Pellorneum minor, Hume, S. F. i. p. 298, iii. p. 120 ; Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 114 ; Oates, >S. F. iv. p. 406, v. p. 154. 
Description. — Male and female. Head from forehead to nape light chest- 
nut, the feathers of the forehead with blackish shafts and tips ; lores 
fulvous white, the shafts black ; a broad superciliary stripe reaching to 
the nape creamy buff-; the feathers immediately over the eye tipped 
brownish ; feathers under the eye and the ear- coverts fulvous, surrounded 
by dusky ; the whole upper plumage, including the wings and tail, olive- 
brown, the outer webs of the primaries lighter and tinged with ochraceous ; 
chin and throat pure white ; remainder of lower plumage light fulvous, 
the feathers of the breast and sides of the body each with a central narrow 
streak of brown, narrower on the breast, and widening laterally; centre 
of abdomen spotless ; under tail-coverts fulvous, with large central marks 
of brown ; tail-feathers tipped with whitish underneath. 
Iris red ; upper mandible dark brown, lower one yellow at base, changing 
to light brown at tip ; mouth flesh-colour ; eyelids greenish ; legs light 
brownish yellow ; claws flesh-colour. 
Length 6*5 inches, tail 2*7, wing 2*6, tarsus 1, bill from gape '82. The 
female is smaller. 
