21. POMATORHXNTTS. 431 



Young. More rufous than the adult, especially on the head, sca- 

 pulars, and upper tail-coverts ; the under surface is dull rufous, 

 except on the throat and centre of breast and abdomen, which are 

 whiter. 



The specimen described is from Darjiling ; and on comparison with 

 examples from the N.W. Himalayas it appears at first sight to 

 be different on account of the greyish shade on the throat, this 

 being white in the latter. Although some of the birds from the 

 north-west occasionaUy show an ashy shade on their throat, there 

 can be no doubt that their general character is rather lighter than 

 those from the eastern Himalayas ; but Nepalese specimens show 

 great variation in the amount of ashy shading on the throat ; and so 

 it becomes impossible to separate them even into two races. 



Hah. Entire range of the Himalayas, throughout the hills of 

 Eastern Bengal, reaching to Tenasserim. 



a. c? ; b,c. $ N. W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



ad.sk. [P.].- 



d. c? ad. sk. Miirree, Oct. 27, 1872. Major C. H. T. Marshall 



[P.]. 



e,f. cJ 2 ad. sk. Simla, Sept. and Oct. A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Kumaon {Stracheij). India Museiun. 



i. (S ad. sk. Near Kotegurh, Dec. 4. A. O. Hume, Esq. 



k. Ad. sk. Nepal valley, Aug. 2, 1877. Dr. Scully [P.]. 



I, m, n. 0. Ad. ; Nepal. " . B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 2). Juv. sk. 



q. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museiun. 



r. Ad. sk. Darjiling. Major C. H. T. Marshall 



s. Ad. sk. Darjiliug. India Museum. 



t. (S ad. sk. Darjiling. A. 0. Hume, Esq. 



w, V. Ad. sk. Bootan [Pemherton). India Museum. 



24. Pomatorhinus macclellaudi. 



Pomatorhinus macclellaudi, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 32 (1863, descr. 



nulla); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 278, no. 4092 (1869); Godioin- 



Austen, J. A. S. Bern/. xxxLx. p. 104 (1870, descr. princ.) ; Jerd. 



Ibis, 1872, p. 302 ; Wardknv Bamsay, His, 1878, p. 143 ; Hume, 



Sir. F. 1875, p. 412, 1879, p. 96. 

 Pomatorhinus gravivox, David, Ann. 8ci. Nat. x^•iii. art. v. p. 2 



(1873) ; id. ^- Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 183, pi. 49 (1877). 



Adult. General colour above dull olive-brown, a little clearer 

 brown on the head ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills brown, ex- 

 ternally a little more fulvous-brown than the back; tail-feathers 

 light brown, washed with olive-brown near the base ; lores duU 

 whitish, surmounted by a bright rufous base to the forehead ; eyelid 

 and feathers below the eye dusky ; ear-coverts and cheeks bright 

 rufous, the base of the cheeks mottled with white bases to the 

 feathers ; a tolerably broad moustachial streak of dusky blackish ; 

 throat and underpails white, the sides of the body olive-brown, 

 the thiffhs and under tail-coverts bright rufous ; fore neck and 



