142 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay's Synopsis 



that adult birds from Tip^Derab and Arakan will be found to 

 be identical with those from Assam, especially as Blyth's cor- 

 rected description of his Orihorhinus hypoleucus (J. A. S. B. 

 xiv. p. 597) agrees with adult specimens from Assam. Un- 

 fortunately the specimen from which he took this description 

 was not brought home by Colonel Godwin- Austen, and is, I 

 presume, still in the Calcutta Museum. 



Another variety (P. tickelli, Blyth, apud Tickell, Ibis, 

 1863, p. 113), occurs in Tenasserim, having been obtained on 

 the mountains of that province by Colonel Tickell in 1855. 

 Mr. Blyth, however (J. A. S. B. 1855, p. 273), treated this spe- 

 cimen as merely a variety of P. hypoleucus, and thought it 

 probable that it might be only a particularly fine adult of that 

 species. As this specimen (which I have now before me) is, like 

 so many of the specimens from the Calcutta Museum, so much 

 faded as to be almost useless for describing, I give Blyth's 

 own words [I. c.) : — " Specimen remarkable for having narrow 

 white mesial streaks to the feathers of the nape, chiefly 

 towards the sides of the nape, which we can perceive no trace 

 of in Arakan specimens ; and similar well-defined but wider 

 streaks on the dark ash-coloured sides of the breast, which 

 are little more than indicated in the Arakan specimens under 

 examination." Mr. A. O. Hume has lately (S. F. v. p. 32) 

 proposed the name "tickelli" for this supposed species. It 

 was known to Col. Tickell (Ibis, 1863, p. 113) as P. tickellii, 

 Blyth, but no reference is given. 



18. POMATORHINUS ERYTHROGENYS. 



Pomatorhinus erythroffenys,Y\gors, P.Z. S. 1830-31, p. 173; 

 Gould, Cent, of B. pi. 55. 



Pomatorhinus ferrugilatris , Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 180 

 (1826). 



Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, Gould, Jerdon, B. of L ii. p. 31. 



Above cinereous olive-brown ; forehead, a line under the 

 eye, ear-coverts, sides of the neck and breast, flanks, lower 

 tail-coverts, and thighs bright rusty brown, inclining to 

 chestnut on the lower tail-coverts and thighs ; tliroat and 

 breast white, the former cinereous in some specimens and in 



