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238 a little more than, three quarters the length of the head, straight and notched at the tip; the nostrils are not overhung by hairs and the rictal bristles are very short.


 * Pellorneum ruficeps Swains., F. Bor.-Am., Birds, p. 487 (1831) (Nilgiris); Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 141.

Vernacular names. Adavi-lika-jitta (Tel.).

Description. Torehead, crown and nape dull rufous; whole upper pluniiige and exposed parts of wings, sides of neck and tail olive-brown, the latter tipped with white; lores and an indistinct superciliuin creamy-white; sides of the head rufous, paler than the crown and mottled with black round the eye, and the ear- coverts streaked with brown : chin, throat and cheeks white; lower plumage white or pale fulvous white boldly streaked with black on the breast and flanks and suffused with olivaceous on the latter and thighs; under tail-coverts olive-brown edged with white.

Colours of soft parts. Iris red to crimson-lake, but cinnamon- brown in the youug; upper mandible dark brown, lower white to fleshy-white; legs, feet and claws fleshy-white.