410 TIMELIUI-E. 



h'" . Ear-coverts bright rufous ; dauks also 

 bright rufous, 

 t^. Breast uniform white, or wliite 



shaded with ashy grey erythrugenys, p. 4.30. 



kK Breast white, with triangular dusky 



spots macleUandi, p. 4.'il. 



/". Breast and under surface also rufous; 



tail-feathers rufous isidorii, p. 4o2. 



1. PomatorMnus montanus. 



Pouiatorhinus montanus, Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. 8oc. xiii. p. 1(35 

 (1820) ; id. Zool. Research, in Java, pi. 51 (1824) ; Bhjth, J. A. S. 

 Be7ig. xi. p. 175 (1842), xii. p. 946 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 229 (1846); Blyth, Cat. B. Mns. As. Soc. p. 147 (1849) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 220 (1850) ; Cab. 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 84 (1850) ; 

 Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 233 (1854) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4081 (1869) ; Ward/aw Ramsay, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 131 ; Nichols. Ibis, 1881, p. 149. 



Adult male. General colour above rufous, crown of head and 

 nape dark slate-colour, rather blacker on the forehead ; lores, 

 feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts slaty black ; a distinct white 

 eyebrow drawn from the base of the nostrils over the eye, and 

 becoming a little broader towards the sides of the nape ; lesser 

 wing-coverts ashy grey, the inner ones washed with rufous ; median 

 and greater coverts, as well as the secondai'ies, dark bi'own, ex- 

 ternally fulvous-brown ; primary-coverts and primaries dark brown, 

 externally slaty grey with a slight wash of fulvous-brown ; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, externally washed with rufous-brown, the 

 two centre ones washed all over with the latter colour ; cheeks and 

 under suface of body white, the sides of the neck and sides of 

 breast rufous, the flanks rufous-brown, as also the under lail- 

 coverts ; thighs and feathers of lower abdomen dark slaty grey ; 

 under wing-coverts slaty grey, with a white patch near the upper 

 baud of the wing, the axillaries washed with rufous ; quills ashy 

 brown below, slightly rufescent along tlie edge of the inner web ; 

 "iris pale straw-colour" {B. 0. Forhes); "bill yellow, with a black 

 mark at base of upper mandible ; legs brown with a plumbeous hue, 

 the claws pale horn-colour ; iris yellowish Avhite " {Ilorsjielcl). Total 

 length 8'7 inches, culmen U'OS, wing t3-55, tail 3' 8, tarsiis 1*3. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 

 7'2 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 3-65, tail 3-7, tarsus 1"35. 



Young. Similar to the adults in colour, but the plumage more 

 fluffy, the head duller, the nape and car-coverts slightly washed 

 with rufous, the grey on the wings and on the thighs and vent 

 washed with rufous. 



Hah. Java. 

 rt. Ad. sk. Juvn (Ilor.^field). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 



b. c? ad. sk. West Java. A. K. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. West Java. A. U. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 e, f. c? 9 'id. sk. .Tava (Lryden Mnsenm). F. T). (Todiman and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 r/. Imra. sk. Java. Gould Collection. 



h. Ad. .'it. Java (Ilorxjiehl). India Museum. 



