Genus PBLLOENEUM. 
Bill lonaer than in the last, straighter; the nostrils more linear; rictal bristles feeble. 
Winns rounded ■ the 6th, 6th, and 7th quills nearly equal and longest. Tail not shorter than 
the ^ng, rounded at the tip and graduated. Tarsus lengthened, its scales obsolete; toes stout, 
the lateral ones subequal. 
PELLOKNEUM EUSCICAPILLUM. 
(THE WHISTLING QUAKER-THRUSH.)^ 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
sub- 
man- 
I)rymocata])hus fuscocapillus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1849, xvni. p- 815 ; id. Cat. B. 
p. 340 (1849) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 122 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. i t,- 
Hist. 1853, xii. p. 269. 
/icscomp tot, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 301. Tyi Qet 
Drymocataphns fiiscicapilMs, Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 447 ; egge, is, , p- 
1875, pp. 393, 410. 
BatitcMa, Sinhalese. 
, . snpri br„« .u,«»d.libus pnultS 
SprpS.-roU.jn . is.=i;';.nSS's b^, " r 
dibula caniea : pedibus rufescenti-carneis : mde rufescenti-brunnea. 
AduU «.i. ...d boned. ”o''“‘ . '™l! 2'5 » 2'8 i ‘o 2-6 . teoM I'O to 1-1 ; md too 0 , to 
loaer teb-colfnr ; legs md toot bro.-nisb flesby, toes dni-ker thnn tarsi, claws pale btowms . 
There are two me,, of this littl, bird in Ceylon^, dark ».d a pale, the lattor inhabiting the north of the ..land oniy, 
the former being found in the soutb-west and central portions of the island. 
le chin and abdomen, and mth flanks dusky ; the cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck of a deeper 
ru£ous liue than the throat. ^ ^ TOf>#i varv very much in depth of 
Birds from the Southern and Central Province districts, which constitute the dark ™ce, vary y 
colouring. Some have the head very dark and the feathers 
at the si^e time of a deeper hue; in such examples the feathers at the sides of the chest are cent 
j. c 4 .v,,w loinw.fl'i The head and nape are light 
PaU race (from the whole of the northern and north-eastern and tail pale ol™^ 
sepia-brown, with the edges of the feathers distinctly daAer ; wing-coverts and rectrices more 
with a greyish hue, and the shafts of the clothing-feathers very hght , the wmg 
conspicuously tipped, and the under surface very pale throughout. 
r Birds of the yetub.ve the iris browner tb» rfulls, »d to. "'”P “ 
"^^The sides of toe chest am liketrise more distinct, and toe tail but faintly tippe u ' oas. 
