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TIMELUDJJ. 



Termilioii-red ; legs and feet pale greenish brown, sometimes a 

 dingy broTrnisla green ; iris creamy ■white " (Davison). Total length 

 9 inches, cnlmen l-lo, wing 3-7, tail 4"1, tarsus 1"3. (J/»s. li. G. 

 Wardlaw Hamsco/.) 



Hah. Tenasserim hills at 5000 to 6000 feet, extending to the 

 Karen hills. 



15. Pomatorhinns stenorhynchus. 



Pomatorhinus stenorhynclius, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlvi. 

 p. 43 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 342 ; Wardlatc Ramsay, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. v. fig. 2; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96. 



Adult male. General colour above Hght ochraceous olive-brown ; 

 the head like the back, but rather richer ochraceous ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, those near the edge of the wing somewhat washed 

 with ashy ; quills dusky, externally like the back ; tail-feathers dark 

 olive-brown, obscurely barred with dusky under certain lights and 

 washed on their margins with the same colour as the back ; a broad 

 white eyebrow from the base of the forehead reaching nearly to the 

 occiput, but not fringed above by a line of black on the sides of the 

 crown ; lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black, not ex- 

 tending onto the sides of the neck ; cheeks and throat white, fading on 

 the latter into the light fulvous of the uuderparts ; the abdomen whiter ; 

 the sides of the body a little deeper than the breast, and inclining to 

 tawny; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts olive-brown; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries very light reddish ; the edge of the wing 

 ashy ; quills dark brown below, with a light margin along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " legs and feet horny grey ; bill bright orange-red " 

 (God win- Austen). Total length 8'5 inches, culmen 1-5, wing 3"7, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus 1-2. (Mus. B. G. Wardlaw Eamsay.) 



Hah. Upper Assam, 



16. Pomatorhinus musicus. 



Pomatorhiuus musicus, Sicinh. Journ. K. China Branch As. Soc. ii. 

 p. 228 (1859) ; id. Ibis, 1860, p. 360, 1863, p. 284, pi. vi. ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4088 (1869) ; Swi7di. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 370 ; 

 Wttrdlaio Ramsaij, Ibis, 1878, Tp. 139; David S,- Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 

 p. 185 (1877). 



Adxdt male. General colour above olive-broAvn ; the head ashy 

 grey, separated from the back by a bright rufous collar, which occupies 

 the nape and hind neck ; the wing-coverts like the back, the bastard- 

 wing feathers and primary-coverts duU ashy brown ; greater coverts 

 and quills ashy brown, edged with the same colour as the back, a 

 little more rufcscent-brown on the margins of the secondaries ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, washed with olive-brown near the base ; fore- 

 head dusky blackish, slightly streaked with white ; a very distiuct 

 eyebrow extending from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape ; 

 lores, feathers round and below the eye, as well as oar-coverts 

 black; the upper edge of the eyelid, adjoining the eyebrow, white; 

 cheeks and throat white ; fore neck white, with broad central streaks 



