Louis Mandelli

“ Description.—Top of head, reaching to upper part of back, rich olivaceous chestunt; remainder of upper parts, olive, with a rufous tinge; tail, dark reddish brown; wings, both coverts and quill feathers, olive brown, edged with reddish brown, over the eye a broad white supercilium continued to the ends of the ear coverts, and this is surmonnted by a broad velvet black streak, which extends across the forehead, and is continued over the eye till it reaches the shoulder: the white supercilium is narrowly continued across the forehead immediately under the black frontal band ”

“ These proportions appertain to a wing 2.7 inches long. The legs, feet, and claws are stout and strong, and similar to those of a Garrulax or Trochalopteron; tail much graduated, broad, and soft, of moderate length or rather short for the bird ”