428 TIMEMID^. 



upper surface of the wings very bright chestnut-red ; tail rufous, 

 lightly sharled with olive ; forehead, eyebrow, and ear-coverts bright 

 rufous : lores and cheeks spotted with black ; ocular region white 

 on the hinder part, black anteriorly ; throat white, with some black 

 hairs on the middle, and at the sides of the black spots, not forming 

 a well-defined moustache ; upper part of the chest white or whitish, 

 with large black triangular spots which end higher up than in P. 

 macddlaiuU ; lower part of chest and abdomen ashy grey, with the 

 flank-feathers shaded with olive-rufous at the extremities ; under 

 tail-coverts dark chestnut-red ; tibial plumes greyish, shaded with 

 brown and rufous ; bill blackish brown, greyish at base ; feet brown, 

 claws grey with brown tips ; iris pale yellow. {David 6f Oustalet.) 



Obs. Capt. Wardlaw Eamsay remarks : — " Of this species I have 

 not seen specimens ; but, judging from the plate and description in 

 the ' Oiseaux de la Chine,' it is doubtfully distinct from P. ery- 

 throcnemis, Gould (Ibis, 1878, p. 144), from which it appears to 

 differ chiefly in the iris being pale yellow." 



Hah. S.E. China. 



21. Pomatorhinus hypoleucus. 



Orthorhinus hypoleucus, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 371 (1844) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 31, 1879, p. 96, 1880, p. 253. 



Pomatorhiuus hypoleucus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 597 (1845) ; 

 id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 146 (1849) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 220 

 (1850) ; Horsf. 8f Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 236 (1854) ; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. 'ii. p. 32 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4103 

 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. .301 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 113 (1875) ; 

 Godwin-Austen, Pr. A. S. Beng. 1877, p. 147 ; Wardlaiv Eamsay, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 140 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. p. 75 (1883). 



Pomatorhinus albicoUis, Gray ^ Mitch. Gen. B. i. p. 229, pi. 57 

 (1846, ex Horsf. MSS.). 



Adult. General colour above brown, the head like the back; 

 wing-coverts also like the back, the greater coverts a little more 

 rufous ; quills dusky brown, externally dull rufous-brown ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, dull rufous-brown along the outer webs ; 

 lores dull ashy ; sides of face and ear-coverts dusky brown ; a line 

 of dull rufous feathers runniug behind the latter on the sides of the 

 neck, where it is a little more distinct ; cheeks, throat, and under- 

 parts white ; the sides of the chest and of the breast slaty grey, 

 varied with arrow-shaped longitudinal streaks and mavkings down 

 the feathers ; flanks olive-brown ; thighs dark ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts ferruginous ; axillarics and under wing-coverts ashy ; quills 

 ashy brown, lighter ashy ahmg the margin of the inner webs ; 

 " culmen and basal portion of the upper mandible horny blackish 

 brown ; tip and lateral portion of upper mandible (except at the 

 base) and greater portion of lower mandible pale whity brown or 

 greyish ; legs, feet, and claws pale " {Hume). Total length 10-5 

 inches, culmen 1-75, wing 4-15, tail 4, tarsus 1-65. 



06s. Mr. Hume separates the Cachar bird as distinct from P. hypo- 

 leucus, and calls it P. inglisi, chiefly on account of the absence of 



