on Dr. Jerdon's 'Birds of India.' 3 



395. MiXORNIS RUBRICAPILLUS. 



Identical with Timalia gularis, Horsfield, founded on a faded 

 specimen, as suggested by Dr. Jerdon. It is common on the 

 eastern side of the Bay of Bengal, in Arakau, the Teuasserim 

 Provinces, and Malayan Peninsula, and is remarkable for the dis- 

 proportionate loudness of its chirping. A second and finer s])e- 

 cies of Mixornis exists in Timalia dmilis, Temm., from Sumatra. 

 Others are given by Bonaparte (Consp. Av. i. p. 217). Speci- 

 mens of M. gularis received from Malacca are generally much 

 faded in colouring from over-exposure to the sun in drying. 



397 and 398. Dumetia hyperythra, Franklin, and D. al- 

 BOGULAiiis (Blyth) ; Gould, B. As. pt. xii. pi. 



The last-mentioned bird is the Flaxen Warbler, Sylvia sub- 

 flava, var. A. of Latham (Gen. Hist. B. vii. p. 95), as shown by 

 a specimen, so marked, in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. It 

 is common in Ceylon. D. hypenjthra is figured and very ill 

 coloured (even as shown by the accompanying description) in 

 the 'Magasin de Zoologie' for 1835 (pi. 40). 



402 and 403. Pomatorhinl's schisticeps and P. leuco- 



GASTER. 



These resemble each other in colouring ; but the former is 

 not only larger but has a proportionately larger and coarser bill 

 and feet, with very much stronger and longer claws. P. leuco- 

 gaster is common in the Dacca district of Eastern Bengal. 



To the genus Pomatorhinus must be added, not only P. 

 PHAYRii, as noticed by Dr. Jerdon (Appendix, p. 872), but also 

 P. HYPOLEUcus, nobis (J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 379, xiv. p. 559, xxiv. 

 p. 273), which is figured as P. alhicollis, Hodgson, by Gray and 

 Mitchell (Gen. B. pi. 57), the range of both species extending 

 from Nipal to the Khasya hills and those of Arakan. P.phayrii 

 differs from P. ferrvginosus not " only in the crown being of 

 the same colour as the back " (ii. p. 29), but also in having the 

 bill of the usual colour, yellow with dusky ridge, instead of 

 bright coral-red in the fresh specimen. The ferruginous colour 

 of the breast is also less deep. A closely allied race to P. phayrii 

 inhabits the Teuasserim provinces, P. albogularis (J. A. S. B. 

 xxiv. p. "271). A Teuasserim specimen of P. hypoleucus is re- 



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