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parts, except the lower tail-coverts, which are purer white, a little 
variegated with dusky ; while the feathers of the throat, breast, and 
flanks are each tipped with a transverse dusky spot, more or less tri- 
angular on those of the breast ; axillaries chiefly pure white ; bill 
and legs yellowish. Length 9 in., of wing 4y%in., tail 3|in., bill to 
front fin., to gape l^in., and tarse l^^in." 
Genus Trochalopteron, Hodgs. {p. 210). 
659. TBOCHALOPTERON MERULINUM, Blyth Sp, 
Garrulax merulinus, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. XX. p. 521 
(1851) ; Gat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. App. p. 7. 
A. Darjeeling ? From Pearson's Collection. 
T. merulinum. " General colour deep olive-brown, the medial 
portion of the under-parts pale rufescent whitish-brown, and spotted 
with black on the throat and upper part of the breast, much as in 
Turdus musicus ; a narrow white streak behind the eye ; [vent and 
under tail-coverts dark rufous ; ] irides whitish-brown ; bill dusky 
plumbeous ; legs brown, with albescent toes. Length 9^ in., ex- 
panse of wings 12 in., closed wing 3^ in., tail 3|- in., bill to front 
-j^in., to gape l^in., and tarse If in." 
Genus DuMETiA, Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 140 
(1851). 
660. DUMETIA ALBOGULABIS, Blyth. 
Malacocercus albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. 
p. 453 (1847). 
Dumetia albogularis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 140. Bayard, Ann. JSTat. Hist. (1853), p. 272. 
Timalia hyperythra, apud Jerdon, Madr. Journ. X. 
p. 261 ; III. Ind. Orn. p. 
Pellorneum albogulare, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XXI. 
p. 357. 
Shah Dumri, Hind., Jerdon. 
Fundi Jitta (i. e. ' Pig-Bird '), Telugu, Jerdon. 
A. S. India. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
B. Madras. Presented by John Gould, Esq., 1853. 
" This bird," remarks Mr. Jerdon, " I have seen but very seldom ; 
once at the top of the Tapoor pass in thick jungle, and in the 
