21. POMATORHINTIS. 423 



Imc Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. iv. fig. 2'; Hume 8,- Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, vol. i. pp. 279, 515 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Oates, 

 B. Br. Bunn. p. 73 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above olivaceous brown, the head of the 

 same colour as the back ; wing-coverts also like the back ; quills 

 dusk)-, externally like the back ; the secondaries slightly washed 

 with rufous ; tail-feathers light brown, washed with olive-brown on 

 their margins ; extreme base of forehead black, as also a line along 

 the sides of the crown, separating from the latter a very broad and 

 distinct eyebrow ; lores also white, surrounded with black ; eyelid, 

 feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks white ; under 

 surface of the body light tawny rufous, except the chin and upper 

 throat, which are white slightly washed with yellow ; flanks and 

 under tail-coverts olive-brown ; thighs like the breast, but duller ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts pale olive-brown ; quills dark 

 brown below, fiilvous along the edge of the inner web ; " iris pale 

 yellow" (Godwin-Austen). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1*2, 

 wing 3*6, tail 4'1, tarsus 1*3. 



Hab. Arakau, extending to the Khasia hUls and ITunipur. Its 

 occurrence, as reported, in the Eastern Himalayas and in Tenasserim 

 is very doubtful. 



a. Ad. sk. Khasia hills (Jerdon). Gould Collection. 



14. Pomatorliiiius albigularis. 



Pomatorhinus albogularis, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 274 (1855) ; 



Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4894 (1869) ; Blyth Sf Wald. B. 



Bunn. p. 113 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 136 ; Wardlaio 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. v. fig. 1 ; Hume 4' Davison, Str. F. 



1878, vol. i. p. 281 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Oates, B. Brit. 



Burm. p. 74 (1883). 

 Pomatorhinus marite, Wald. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 403 



(1875) ; id. B. Burm. p. 113 (1875) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 404; 



id. Sj- Davison, Str. F. 1878, i. p. 280. 



Adult female (Karen hills, April 1875; E. G. Wardlaw Ramsay). 

 General colour above fulvescent olive-brown ; the wing-coverts like 

 the back ; the quills dusky brown, externally reddish brown, paler on 

 the outer webs of the primaries : upper tail-coverts slightly darker 

 than the back ; tail-feathers umber-brown, barred with dusky under 

 certain lights and shaded with reddish brown on their margins ; 

 crown of head a little more reddish brown than the back ; extreme 

 base of forehead black, continued in a narrow line along the sides of 

 the crown to the nape, and skirting a conspicuous white eyebrow ; 

 lores also white ; feathers round the eye, eyelid, and ear-coverts 

 black ; cheeks and throat white ; remainder of under surface light 

 ochraceous buff : the sides of breast and flanks olivaceous brown ; 

 thighs pale tawny ; under tail-coverts olivaceous brown ; axillaries 

 like the sides of the breast ; under wing-coverts pale tawny buff ; the 

 lower series brown ; edge of wing ashy grey ; lower series of quills 

 dusky brown, pale rufous along the edge of the inner web; "bill 



