140 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay's Synopsis 



Hab. Hainan {Swinhoe). 



Mr. Swinhoe remarks (/. c.) that the female is not so ru- 

 fescent as the male, and wants the red on the hind neck. 



17. POMATORHINUS HYPOLEUCUS. 



Orthorhinus hypoleucus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 371 (1844) . 

 Pomatorhinus hypoleucus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 597 



(1845). 

 Pomatorhinus albicollis (Horsf. MS.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of 



B. i. pi. 57 (1846). 



Pomatorhinus hypoleucus, Blyth, Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 301. 



Pomatorhinus inglisi, Hume, S. F. v. p. 32 (1877). 



" Colour above olive-brown, a little cinerascent on the 

 head ; and a rufous streak commences behind the eye, and 

 expands into a patch on the sides of the neck beyond the ear- 

 coverts ; lower parts white, margined with ashy on the sides 

 of the breast ; and the flanks wholly ashy with a tinge of 

 brown ; wings and tail a little rufescent, the lower tail-coverts 

 a little more deeply so. 



"Length 10 to 11 inches, wing 4*25, tail 4, bill to gape 1-75, 

 tarsus 1-50" {Blyth) (descr. orig.). 



Hab. Tipperah, Arracan, Khasias (jB/yM) ; Assam {Godwin- 

 Austen) ; Sikkim or Nepal {Hodgson, fide Jerdon) . 



For want of good adult specimens from Arakan and Tippe- 

 rah, I am unable to write with much certainty about this 

 species. I have before me ten specimens in all from Hill 

 Tipperah, Garo hills, Naga hills, Cachar, Dafla hills, Saddya, 

 and Arakan (Blyth's type specimen, J. A. S. B. xiii. 371). 

 I provisionally retain the birds from all these localities under 

 the title P. hypoleucus, Blyth. Mr. A. O. Hume (S. F. v. 

 p. 32) has separated the Cachar bird under the title of P. 

 inglisi ; and with reference to Mr. Hume-'s remarks (/. c.) I 

 may mention that the description of P. hypoleucus (Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 301) be alludes to was not written by Jerdon, but by Lord 

 Tweeddale, and was taken from a Garo-hill specimen — the only 

 specimen which he happened to have in his house at the time he 

 was completing Jerdon^s manuscript*, and which I have before 



* See Ibis, 1872, p. 297, footnote. Colonel Godwin-Austin was in 



