6. ORTHOTOMUS. 225 



chestnut-rufous, the centres of all of them brown for nearly their 

 basal half ; head and nape bright chestnut, including also the lores ; 

 rest of sides of face j-eUowish buff, the upper margin of the ear- 

 coverts bright chestnut like the crown ; entire under surface of body 

 yeUowish buff, clearer fulvous on the flanks and under tail- coverts, 

 the sides of the upper breast washed with greyish brown ; thighs 

 chestnut ; under wing-coverts fulvous, the outermost of the lower 

 series bright chestnut ; iris yellow. Total length 4'9 inches, culmen 

 0-75, wing 2-05, tail I'S, tarsus 0-9. 



The following measurements taken from Tenasserim specimens 

 are given by Mr. Hume (I. c.) : — 



Males. Total length 5-12-5'2 inches, expanse 6-5, tail from vent 

 1-5-1-75, wing 1-S2-2-0, tarsus 0-8-0-85, biU from gape 0-7o-0-8. 



Females. Length 5 inches, expanse G"2, tail from vent l"4,wing 

 1-82, tarsus 0-8, biU from gape 0-8. 



The colours of the soft parts in the males were not recorded. 

 Both females had the lower mandible fleshy pink ; upper mandible 

 homy brown. One female had the legs and feet fleshy pink ; the 

 other had the feet, claws, and back of tarsi fleshy, front of tarsi pale 

 brown ; in one the irides were salmon, in the other deep brown. 



Youny. Browner above than the adults, the sides of the face and 

 underparts yellowish buff ; throat white ; sides of crown brick-red, 

 but the centre of the head and the nape brown like the back ; tail- 

 feathers reddish brown, paler at the tips, and all except the outer- 

 most blackish in the centre of the feathers, gradually deepening in 

 intensity towards the tip and becoming subterminally much darker. 



Hah. The Indo-Malayan islands, having been found in Borneo, 

 Sumatra, and the Philippine island of Palawan. It is also met 

 with in the Malayan peninsula, and is a rare straggler into the 

 southern boundary of Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



[P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. ]\ralacca. India Museum. 



c. S ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Sumatra. M. Verreaux. 



e. Ad. sk. Labiian. Governor Ussher [C.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Sarawak. Hemy Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Lumbidan. Hugh Low, Esq. [0.]. 



i. 5 ad. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Capt. E. G. Wardlaw 



Dec. 1877 {A. Everett). Ramsay. 



8. Orthotomus cineraceus. 



Orthotomus sepium, Lafr. Hlnf/. cle Zoo/. 1836, pi. 51 (nee Horsf.'). 

 Oithotomus cineraceus, Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 489 (1845) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 144 (1849) ; Bp. Consj>. i. p. ■282 (1850) ; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 80 ; Hoisf. i,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 



Mus. i. p. 315 (1854) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 215 ; Grag, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 195, no. 2692 (1869) ; Sahad. Ucc. Born. p. 248 (1874) ; 



Sharjje, Ibis, 1877, p. 114 ; Ttcvedd. t. c. p. 312 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 64 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1(^79, p. 341, 1881, p. 798. 

 Orthotomus borneonensis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 247 (1874) ; Sharpe. 



Ibis, 1876, p. 41, pi. ii. fig. 1; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. 



p. 235 (1879). 



vox. VII Q 



