426 TTMELnD^. 



culmcn; legs and feet leaden grey; irisyellowisli"(;S'iyMi7ioe). Total 

 length 6-1 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-9, tarsus I'l. {Mus. R. G. 

 Warcdaiv Bamsaj/.) 

 Hah. Island of Hainan. 



18. Pomatorhinus ruficollis. 



Pomatorliimis ruticollis, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 182 (1836); 



id. Icon. ined. in. Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 183 (no. 239), 184. 



fig. 3 ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 175 (1842) ; Hodgs. in Gray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. 



Hodqs. p. 86 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 229 (1846) ; Bh/th, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 147 (1849) ; Bjj. Consp. i. p. 220 (1850) ; Cab. 



Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 84 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.l. Co. 



Mus. i. p. 236 (1854) ; Jcrd. B. Ind. ii. p. 29 (1863) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, n. 4085 (1869) ; David Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, 



p. 186 (1877) ; Wardknv Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 138 ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Scully, t. c. p. 287. 

 Pomatorhinus stridulus, Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 265; id. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 278 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4096 (1869) ; Swinh. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 371. 

 Adidt male. General colour above fulvous-brown, rather olivaceous 

 in tint, the head more dusky brown, the neck chestnut-rufous all 

 round, especially on the sides, forming an indistinct coUar ; wings 

 resembling the back, the outer coverts slightly greyish, the primaries 

 washed with olive externally ; tail brown, waved with dusky bars 

 under certain lights, and washed with olive on the outer margin ; 

 a very broad white eyebrow from the base of the biU to the sides of 

 the nape ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks and 

 entire throat white, the former tipped with yellowish-brown edgings 

 to the feathers ; breast also whitish, broadly streaked with yellowish 

 brown, the shaft-streak of each plume very distinctly white ; sides 

 of body olive fiilvous-browu, as well as thighs and under tail- and 

 wing-coverts, the latter slightly more rufous : " bill horny yellow, 

 paler at tip, and the base of the maxilla and basal three fourths of 

 culmen brownish black ; feet grey or greenish plumbeous ; claws 

 brownish horny ; eyelid plumbeous ; iris varying from pale red to 

 crimson '' (ScuUi/). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-15, 

 taU 3-7, tarsus 1-2. 



Youmj. Much yellower and more tawny than the adult, the head 

 rufescent, and the sides of the neck bright foxy red ; forehead also 

 foxy red ; cheeks and chin white ; the throat and breast tawny 

 fulvous, inclining to olive-brown on the abdomen and sides of the 

 body ; a broad white eyebrow ; ear-coverts blackish, inclining to 

 tawny rufous on their hinder margin ; lores and feathers under the 

 eyes black. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas, extending into Bootan and the Khasia 

 hiUs ; throughout the hills of Southern China to the river Hoang-ho. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 c, d, e,f. Ad. ; Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



g. Juv. sk. 



