427 



India Museum. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Mai or C. H. T. MarshaU 



[P.]. 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 

 A. 0. Hume, Esq. 

 India Museum. 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



19, Pomatorhiuus erythrocnemis. 



Pomatorhiuus erytbrocnemis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1802, p. 281 ; id. B. 

 Asia, part xvi. ; Swinh. /&/*% 1863, p. 286; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 278, no. 4089 (1869); Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 370; David ^ 

 Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 182 (1877) ; Wardlaiu Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 144. 



Adtdt. General colour above chestnut-brown, a little more dusky 

 and tinged with olive on the hind neck and sides of neck ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills brown, externally chestnut-brown like 

 the back ; tail-feathers brown, washed with chestnut-brown on the 

 outer webs ; head dull ashy brown, slightly washed with olive, the 

 base of the forehead chestnut, forming a patch on each side of the 

 bill ; lores fulvous, tipped with black ; eyelid and cheeks black, as 

 well as the feathers below the eye ; ear-coverts ashy brown, with a 

 red patch on the basal portion ; throat white ; fore neck and chest 

 white, very broadly streaked wiih black ; centre of breast and abdo- 

 men dull white ; the sides of the body olive-brown, strongly tinged 

 with fulvous on the sides of the breast ; the lower flanks rather 

 more reddish brown ; thighs olive-brown on the upper part, bright 

 chestnut on the lower ; under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; axillaries 

 olive-brown, the under wing-coverts more fulvescent ; lower series 

 ashy brown like the inner lining of the quills, which are slightly 

 rufescent along the margin of the inner web ; " biU blackish grey 

 with pale edges ; legs leaden grey, claws brownish ; iris light reddish 

 brown " (Siuinhoc). Total length 8-6 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 3-8, 

 tail 4, tarsus 1-5. 



Hub. Island of Formosa. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



North Fonnosa, April 1862. 

 North Formosa {R. Siuinkoe). 



c, d. Ad. sk. North Formosa (JR. Swivkoe). 



R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 

 F. D. Godmau and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



20. PomatorMmis swinhoii. 



Pomatorliinus swinhoii, David, Ann. Set. Xat xix. art. 9 (1874) ; 

 id. &■ Oustalct, Ois. Chine, p. 184 (1877) ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 144. 



Upper part of head olive-brown, with the centre of the feathers 

 dark brown ; upper part of neck and nape olive-rufous ; back and 



