303 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



Assam. Tickell (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1855, p. 273) notes 

 that the bill in this species is softer than in typical Poma- 

 torhinus, and is subcylindrical ; the sinciput is fiat, the tail 

 broad and fan-like ; and it might, perhaps, with P. erythrogenys, 

 form a peculiar group. It is the type of Orthorhinus, Blyth, /. c. 



405 ter. Pomatorhinus m'clellandi, nobis, B. of India, 

 vol. ii. p. 32. 



This bird was noted by me [1. c.) from specimens procured on 

 the Khasia hills. I have since found it by no means rare in 

 Assam, down to the level of the river Burrampootra; and 

 Godwin-Austen got it in Sylhet. I add a brief description. 



Above ashy olive, appearing faintly tinged with ferruginous in 

 some lights ; forehead distinctly ferruginous ; lores, a large spot 

 at the gape, chin, throat, breast, and abdomen white ; some of 

 the pectoral feathers tipped with pale spots, coloured like the 

 upper plumage ; flanks and some of the abdominal plumes 

 dingy ferruginous ash ; nareal plumes and ear-coverts ferrugi- 

 nous ; thigh-coverts and under tail-coverts bright ferruginous ; 

 a broad stripe following the rami of the mandible. Wing 

 3|, tail 3^, tarsus -f|-, bill from gape -f. 



406. XiPHORHAMPHUS SUPERCILIARIS. 



Gould, B. Asia, pt. ix. pi. 9. 



A female taken on her nest measured 8i inches, extent 9|, 

 wing 3, tail 3|, bill 2. Irides reddish white, with an outer 

 circle of dull red. The nest was loosely made of grass and 

 bamboo-leaves, lined with fine grass, and contained two fleshy- 

 white effffs. 



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407. Garrulax leucolophus. 



The tail is very faintly but distinctly barred. 



408. Garrulax c^rulatus. 



By an error of the pen or press the wings, instead of the 

 flanks, are said to be ashy blue. The eggs are figured by 

 Hodgson as bright blue. 



409. Garrulax delesserti. 

 Gould, B. ^sia, pt. xix. pi. 14. 



