430 HMELIED^. 



the adjoining breast-featliers edged with ashy grey ; thighs some- 

 what more ashy olive, with narrow white shaft-streaks ; under tail- 

 coverts bright chestnut ; axillarics ashy grey ; under wing-coverts 

 a little more olive-brown, the inner ones streaked with white ; 

 quills sepia-brown below, edged with ashy along the inner web ; 

 " bill horny, darker at base of upper mandible ; legs and feet fleshy 

 white; iris dark reddish browu" (Bi)u/ham MSS.), Total length 

 12 inches, culmen 1*85, wing 4"3, tail 4*45, tarsus 1"75. 

 Hah. Tenasserim. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Houndraw valley, Tenasserim, Capt. Bingham [0.]. 

 Feb. 2.3, 1882. 



23, Pomatorhinus erythrogenys. 



Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 173 ; Gould, 

 Cent. Himal. B. pi. 55 (1832) ; Blytli, J. A. 8. Beng. xi. p. 175 

 (1842), xii. p. 946 (1843) ; Hoclgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Pas- 

 seres, pis. 183, 184. fig. 1 (no. 237) ; id. in Graifs Zool. Misc. 

 p. 83 (1844); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 229 (1846) ; id. Cat. Ma7nm. etc. 

 Nepal pres. Ilodgs. p. 87 (1846) ; Hutton, J. A. S. Beng. xvii. 

 pt. 2, p. 10 (1848) ; Blyih, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 146 (1849) ; 

 Bp. Consj}. i. p. 220 (1850) ; Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 84 (1850) ; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 31 (186.3) ; Gray, liand-l. B. i. p. 277, no. 4082 

 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 301 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 251 (1872) ; Wold, in Blyth B. Burm. p. 113 (1875) ; Wardlaw 

 Bamsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 142 ; Anders. Zool. Exyed. Yunnan, Aves, 

 p. 634 (1878) ; mime, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Scully, t. c. p. 288 ; 

 Oates, B. Brit. Burm. p. 75 (1883).^ 



Pomatorhinus ferrugilatus, Hodgs, Asiat. Research, xix. p. 180 

 (1836). 



Adult. General colour above dark olive-brown, the head of the 

 same colour as the back ; wing-coverts like the back, the primary- 

 coverts a little more dusky ; quills dusky brown, externally like the 

 back, the primaries a little paler on the outer edge ; tail-feathers 

 diisky brown, barred across under certain lights, the edges of the 

 feathers olive-brown ; base of forehead bright chestnut-red, extend- 

 ing as a slightly paler eyebrow along the sides of the crown ; lores 

 ashy whitish ; eyelid dusky ; cheeks and ear-coverts bright chest- 

 nut-red, rather whiter near the base of the former, which is sepa- 

 rated from the throat by an indistinct moustachial streak of dusky 

 blackish ; throat and fore neck dull ashy, mottled with whitish 

 centres to the feathers ; centre of l:)reast and abdomen whitish ; the 

 sides of the body orange-rufous, the flanks more olive-brown ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts bright chestnut-red ; axillarics pale 

 orange-rufous ; the under wing-coverts a little deeper in colour, the 

 lower series light ashy browu, like the inner lining of the quills, 

 which are ashy fulvous along the margin of the inner web ; " bill 

 dingy grey horny ; base of maxilla blackish, and base of mandible 

 greenish ; feet brownish fleshy ; claws brown horny ; iris yellowish 

 white or horny" {Scully). Total length 8-8 inches, culmen 1-3, 

 wing 3-55, tail 3-8, tarsus 1-35. 



