2. PTCTORins. 513 



Timalica altirostris, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4716 (1869)/ 

 Pyctorliis altirostris, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Bent/, xlv. part 2, 



p. 197, pi. ix. (1876) ; Blanf. Str. F. 1877, p. 226 ; Oates, Stt: F. 



1877, p. :249 ; Hume, t. c. p. 329; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. 



xlvii. part 2, p. 24 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Oates, Str, 



F. 1881, p. 206 ; id. B. Brit. Burm. p. 47 (1883). 

 Pyctorliis griseigularis, Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 116 ; id. Str. F. 1879, 



p. 95. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark fulvescent 

 bro^n-n, the head darker and rather more rufous-brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; quills brown, externally rufous, the inner secondaries 

 almost entirely rufous ; tail-feathers (mostly much worn) brown, 

 with paler and more rufous edges ; feathers at base of forehead, 

 lores, and a narrow eyebrow whitish, some of the feathers with black 

 shafts; ear-coverts fulvous-brown with a slight rufous tinge ; cheeks 

 yellowish white ; rest of under surface dull white ; the sides of the 

 breast, flanks, abdomen, and under tail-coverts yellowish buff; the 

 thighs slightly tinged with rufous ; under wing-coverts tawny buff, 

 washed with rufous ; quills light brown below, rufous along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " upper mandible pale horn-colour, under one 

 pinkish ; eyelids yellow, but not tumid as in P. sinensis ; iris brown, 

 surrounded by a pinkish ring ; inside of mouth flesh-colour ; legs 

 brownish flesh-colour ; claws pinkish horn " (Eugene W. Oates) ; 

 " iris pale sienna " (God win- Austen). Total length 5'7 inches, culmeu 

 0-5, wing 2'35, tail 3, tarsus 1. 



The present species is evidently liable to get its plumage much 

 woru : it was one in such a coudition that Dr. Jerdon origiually 

 obtained ; and this may account for his description of the type not 

 quite agreeing with IMr. Hume's specimens, whence the latter gen- 

 tleman redeseribed the species as P. griseigidaris. Jerdon's type is 

 in the British Museum, to which ho presented it in 1862, along with 

 the types of other species described in the ' Ibis ' for that year. 



Mr. Blanford's bird, procured in Scinde, was kindly lent to me bj' 

 that gentleman. It is so closelj* allied to P. altirostris that I should 

 not like to separate it specifically without seeing a larger series ; but 

 the Scinde bird appears to me to have the ashy white colour coufiued 

 to the throat, whereas in. Burmese specimens this colour pervades the 

 throat and breast. 



Hah. Burmah and Pegu, ranging through the low country of Assam 

 to the Bhootan Dooars, probably ranging westwards into Scinde. 



a. Ad. sk. Island in Irawady river, T. C. Jerdon, E.«q. [P.]. 



off Thayetmyo' (Type of Pijctorhis al- 



tirostris, Jerd. ) 

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