6. OBTHOTOMTJS. 219 



6. ORTHOTOMUS*. ^^p^ 



Orthotomus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 165 (1820). . O. sepium. 



Edela, Lesson, Tr'aite d'Orn. p. 309 (1831) O.ruficeps. 



Cf. Lafresn. May. de Zool. 1836, pis. 51, 52, 53 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, 

 pp. 78-82 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, pp. 108-116. 



Bill of Orthotomus cineraceus. 

 Mange. From the Burmese countries down the Malayan peninsula 

 to Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines. 



Key to the Species, 

 a. Wings externally greenish or olive-yellow or 

 gTey, never rufous. 

 a'. Chin white or buify white. 



a". Mautle gi-een or olive yellowish. 

 a" '. No black thi-oat-spot. 



a*. Forehead rufous hke the hinder 



part of the crown ; no grey on head airif/idaris $ , p. 221. 

 ¥: Forehead rufous, the hinder part of 



the head grey, as well as the nape . frontalis, p. 220. 

 6'". With a more or less distinct throat- 

 spot, 

 c*. Smaller ; head chestnut ; cheeks and 

 sides of face white ; upper margin 



of ear-coverts chestnut atrigulans S , p. 221. 



d*. Larger ; ear-coverts with a pure 



white spot. . . 



a\ Head grey cmereiceps, p. 2-2'2. 



b\ Head black nigriceps, p. 222. 



b". Mantle grey ; head chestnut. 



c'". Tail olive-brown, with yellow margins 

 and a blackish subterminal spot on 



all the feathers castnjieiceps, p. 223. 



d'". Tail chestnut. 



e*. "\Mng-feathers externally olive- 



oyeen .' derhianus, p. 224. 



f. Wing-coverts and quills externally 



grey hke the back nifceps, p. 224. 



* The followiiig species I have not succeeded in identifying : — 

 Oktiiotomus longiuostris. 

 Orthotomus loiigirostris, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 343; Grmj, Gen. B 

 i p 162; Bp. Con.-^p. i. p. 282 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 18o4, p. 80; Horsf. # 

 i^luore,Cat. i. p. 315, note ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 195, no. 2693 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 116. . .It 



Ciuereous; heueath whitish; head, chin, and thighs ferrugmous ; hroat 

 black ; tail brownish, graduated; the latter with dusky black ends, tipped with 

 whitish. (Mui. Paris.) , . . , , „„n„ 



Probably 0. cineraceus, Blyth ; but the description does not agree exactly. 



