to * The Birds of India: 301 



vol. vH. p. 257 (1871), from Tenasserim, is pronounced by Mr. 

 Blanford to be Pellorneum tickelli, Blyth. 



401. POMATORHINUS FERRUGINOSUS. 



The black of the lores and ears is narrowly edged below with 

 white. One measured in the flesh 9 inches, extent 10^, wing 

 3|, tail 4|, foot l^^. 



401 bis. PoMATORHiNUS PHAYRii, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 1847, xvi. p. 452. 



This very closely allied species (which chiefly differs from the 

 last in the crown of the head being of the same colour as the 

 back, and in the ferruginous tint being less deep) must be added 

 to the Indian fauna, specimens from Nepal, or more probably 

 from Sikkim, being in Hodgson's collections. The irides were 

 pale yellow in one procured by Major Godwin-Austen. Length 

 9 inches, extent 10|, wing 3|, tail 4, tarsus If, bill from front 1^. 



403. POMATORHINUS LEUCOGASTER. 



One killed lately in Assam measured in the flesh 9 inches, 

 extent 10|, wing 3|, tail 4, bill from front 1 j^, foot 2^. 



405. POMATORHINUS ERYTHROGENYS. 



The wings are olivaceous on the outer web, ashy brown on 

 the inner web ; tail olivaceous, obsoletely barred. In winter this 

 bird associates in flocks. 



405 bis. POMATORHINUS HYPOLEUCUs (Blyth), Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. 1844, p. 371. 



Pomatorhinus alhicollis, Horsf. MS.; Gray, Gen. of Birds, 

 pi. 57. 



The White-bellied Scimitar Babbler. 



Entire upper surface, wings, and tail ferruginous brown ; 

 chin, throat, middle of the breast, and belly creamy white; 

 feathers on the sides of the breast creamy white, with ashy 

 edgings ; flanks and under wing-coverts ashy, tinged with 

 the hue of the upper plumage ; thigh-coverts white, mixed with 

 ashy; under tail-coverts bright ferruginous. Wing 4f, bill 

 from nostril If, tarsus 6|-, tail 4f . 



This species must be added to the Indian fauna, having been 

 sent by Hodgson (?) probably from Sikkim. It occurs also in 



