11. PiERORHixus. :3.53 



Babax lanceolatus, David, Joum. 3we Expl. Chine, i. p. 181 (1876) ; 

 id. Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 187, pi. 51 (1877). 



Adult male (IToupin, March 1st, 1869 ; A. David). Above streaked, 

 the gcueral colour being dark chestnut-brown and ashy, the margins 

 to the feathers being of the latter colour ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts more uniform ashy brown, the central streaks not so marked; 

 wing-coverts coloured like the back, except the bastard-wing feathers, 

 which are dusky brown edged with ashy ; primary -coverts unifonn 

 brown ; quills brown, the primaries sHghtly margined with ashy, 

 the inner secondaries more riifous-brown and with plainer ashy 

 margins : tail olivaceous brown, with indistinct cross bars under 

 certain hghts ; crown of head chestnut-brown ; nape and sides of 

 neck streaked like the back, but the edges to the feathers rather 

 clearer and more hoary grey ; lores and feathers in front of the eye 

 fulvous-brown ; ear-coverts, as well as a tolerably broad eyebrow, 

 hoary white, spotted or streaked with dark brown ; cheeks blackish, 

 the hinder part mottled with chestnut-brown edged with hoary 

 white ; throat and under surface of body buffy white, a little purer 

 on the breast and abdomen ; the fore neck and breast streaked with 

 nearly obsolete shaft-lines of black : the sides of the breast and 

 flanks broadly streaked with chestnut, relieved by a black streak 

 down the centre of the feather ; sides of vent and thighs brown 

 with dusky streaks ; under tail-coverts more fulvescent with dusky 

 brown centres ; under wing-coverts fulvous-brown streaked with 

 chestnut ; quills ashy brown below, strongly washed with pale 

 rnfous along the inner web ; " bill brown ; feet and claws grey ; iris 

 pale yellow" (Drti7'(/). Total length 10-8 inches, culmen 1-05, 

 wing 3-75, tail 5, tarsus l-o. {Mm. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Hah. High mountains of Moupin, Western Szechuen, and South 

 Chensi, in China. 



11. PTERORHINUS. ^ 



Pterorhinus, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 60 P. davidi. 



Range. China and Mongolia. 



1. Pterorhinus davidi. 



Pterorhinus davidi, Stcinh. His, 1868, p. 61 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 371 ; 

 Gould, B. A»ia, part xxiii. (1871); Prjev. in Dawson Roiilei/'a 

 Orn. Mi.^c. ii. p.20:> (1877) ; David 4- Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 187. 

 pi. 50 (1877). 



Pouiatorhinus davidi, Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4104 (1864). 



Adult female (t}-pe of species). General colour above unifonn 

 dark ashy brown, clear ashy on the upper tail-coverts; wing- 

 coverts like the back, with a wash of lavender-grey on the bastard 

 wing and outer primary-coverts ; quills dusky brown, the primaries 

 externally lavender-grey, the inner secondaries like the back ; centre 



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