144 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay on the Genus Pomatorhiniis. 



Naga-hill birds in Colonel Godwin-Austen's collection 

 exceed all these measurements, having the wing 3* 5 inches 

 and the bill from gape 1*5. 



Hab. Khasias [Jerdon] ; Naga hills, Saddya, Munipoor {God- 

 win-Austen); Setchuen, Chensi (David). 



Pomatorhinus gravivox, David (/. c), is clearly this species, 

 judging by the description and plate in the ' Ois. de la Chine,' 

 where it is stated to inhabit " the mountains in Central 

 Chensi and Northern Setchuen, as well as the chain between 

 the provinces of Houpe and Honan/' 



20. Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis. 



Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 281 ; 

 B. of Asia, pt. xvi. pi. iv.; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 286. 



Forehead at base of maxilla, a small patch below the ear- 

 coverts, a few feachers on either side of the breast, knees, 

 and lower tail-coverts rusty red ; head and neck cinereous 

 brown, each feather margined with olive-brown ; lower neck, 

 back, wing-coverts, outer webs of the wing-feathers bright 

 reddish chestnut ; tail reddish olive-brown ; beneath white, 

 a broad moustache along the rami of the mandible dark brown, 

 the feathers of the breast conspicuously marked with large 

 acutely angular spots of the same colour ; flanks and thighs 

 olive-brown. Spec, descr. mus. Tweeddale. 



" Legs leaden-grey, claws brownish ; irides light reddish 

 brown ; bdl much curved, blackish grey, with pale edges. 



'' In the young bird the bill is much shorter and less curved, 

 the head is browner, and the back and upper parts more 

 rufous, but the underparts are dingier and the colours gene- 

 rally not so bright as in the adult " {Swinhoe, I. c.) . 



Wing 3"8 inches, bill from gape 1*6, tarsus 1*5, tail 4. 



Hab. Formosa, where it replaces in the central mountains 

 P. musicus of the low country, rarely descending below 

 2000 feet {Swinhoe) . 



21. Pomatorhinus swinhoei. 



Pomatorhinus swinhoei, A. Dav. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. vol. 



xix. art. 9, p. 5 (1874) ; Oiseaux de la Chine, p. 184, pi. 48. 



Of this species, which was described three years ago by Pire 



