6. OETHOTOMUS. * 221 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 78 ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 



Mus. i. p. 316. note; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 195, no. 2691 (1869); 



Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 249 (1874) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, pp. 16, 113 ; 



Hume ^- Damon, Shr. F. 1878, ^ol. vi. p. 345 ; Hume, Sir. F. 



1879, pp. 64, 101 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 259 ; Oates, Str. F. 1882, 



p. 219. 

 Orthotomus flavoviridis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 72 ; Horsf. ^~ Moure, 



Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 314 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 195, no. 2686 (1869) ; Walden in Blytlis B. Burm. p. 121 (1875). 

 Orthotomus nitidus, Hume, Str. F. 1874, pp. 478, 507, 1875, p. 325. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, the wings 

 dark brown, all the feathers edged with the same colour as the back, 

 the edge of the wing bright lemon-yellow ; upper tail-coverts brighter 

 and more yellowish green than the back ; tail-feathers dull brown, 

 shaded with green and edged with yellowish green, the tips paleyellow, 

 but with no subterminal dark bar ; crown of head light bay, as well 

 as the feathers round the eye ; ear-coverts uniform ashy whitish ; 

 cheeks and throat dull white, somewhat mottled with black, where 

 the bases show through ; lower throat entirely black, forming a large 

 patch, the plumes of the lower part of which are longitudinally 

 streaked with silky while ; rest of under surface of body silky white, 

 washed with grey on the sides of the upper breast, the sides of the 

 body dull greenish, the under tail-coverts pale yellow, thighs yel- 

 lowish tawny : under wing-coverts pale yellow, the lower ones 

 white ; under surface of quills pale brown, edged with whitish along 

 the inner web; bill in skin pale brown, the under mandible lighter 

 and more yellow ; legs dark brown, the toes much paler. Total 

 length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 1-75, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-75. 



The birds which I take to be the adult female of this species 

 agree in most respects with the male, but want the black throat. 

 The tail-feathers also show a very distinct subterminal bar of blackish 

 brown, which is scarcely visible in the males. I am disposed, how- 

 ever, to consider this character of small importance, as it seems not 

 only to vary in individuals from the same locality, but even to de- 

 pend somewhat on the fresh state of the feather. A female from 

 Malacca ( Wallace ; mus. J. Gould) measures as follows — Total 

 length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 1-5, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-7. 



A specimen marked " 5 " by Mr. Davison, collected at Klang in 

 Salangore, has some black on the fore neck ; but as none of the otliers 

 except Mr. Inglis's Dilkoosha specimen have any black on the fore 

 neck, there may have been some mistake in sexiug the specimen. 

 The last-named specimen is more ashy black, and not such a deep 

 black on the throat as in Borncan and Malaccan examples ; the chest 

 has several longitudinal drops of white, very distinctly pronounced. 

 The same ashy blackish shade is perceptible in Mr. Oates's Pegu 

 specimens. 



Hah. Borneo and Sumatra, extending throughout the Malayan 

 peninsula to British Bui-mah. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Lumbidan, N. W. Borneo. Governor Usslier [C. 



r, rf. cJ ? ad. sk. Bintulu, W. Borueo. Alfred Everett, Esq. fC.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



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