25. MII0RNI8. 579 



The iris appears to vary in colour, being marked by Capt. Ward- 

 law Ramsay as " pale yellow " and " straw-yellow." 

 JIab. Himalayas, extending into the Burmese countries. 



a. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 



b. Imm. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



g. Ad. sk. Bootan (Pemherton). India Museum. 



h. iS ad. sk. Dilkoosha, Cachar, March 19, J. Inglis, Esq. [C.]. 



1879. 

 i. Ad. sk. Pegu. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 k. 5 ad. sk. Pegu, Aug. 29, 1880. E. W. Gates, Esq. [0.1. 



I. $ ad. sk. Pegu, Nov. 27, 1880. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C. 



m. d ad. sk. Pegu, Dec. 2, 1880. E. W. Gates, Esq. [C . 



n. Ad. sk. Saigon, Cochin Chuia. M. E. Pierre [P.]. * 



5. Mixornis javanica. 



Myiothera gularis, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 442. fig. 1 (nee Horsf.). 



Mixornis gidaris, Bj). Consp. i. p. 217. 



Mixornis javanica. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 77, note ; Bp. C. R. 



xxxviii. p. 59; Wdd. Ibis, 1872, p. 376; Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 149. 

 Timaha gularis, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 317, no. 4719 (1869). 



Adult. Above reddish brown, the head and sides of neck only 

 slightly more chestnut than the back ; the wings, however, decidedly 

 chestnut ; the quills sepia-browu, externally chestnut, the margins 

 to the primaries much paler rufous ; tail dark brown washed with 

 chestnut, especially near the base ; frontal plumes rather dusky ; 

 sides of the face grey, especially the cheeks, the ear- coverts slightly 

 washed with rufous on the hinder margin ; throat and chest pale 

 yellowish white, inclining to greenish on the sides of the upper 

 breast, distinctly streaked with blackish down the centre of each 

 feather ; centre of the body dull ycUow, the sides greenish as well 

 as the under tail-coverts, some of the latter being slightly washed 

 with rufous ; on the flanks some faint iudicatious of dusky streaks ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish, the outermost and the greater series 

 with mesial dusky streaks; "iris straw-colour" (H. 0. Forbes). 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-3, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-8. 



Hab. Java. 



a. Ad. sk. W.Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. st. Java. Purchased. 



d. c? ad. ; e. ? juv. Java {Ley den Mus.). F. D. Godman and G. Sal- 

 sk. vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



* This specimen is apparently not of the same species as Himalayan ones, 

 but it is in too poor a condition for me to deterniine for certain. 



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