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4, Orthotomus atrigularis, 



Hab. Borneo and Malayan peninsula, extending northwards 

 to Tenasserim and Burmah. 



In Borneo Mr. Alfred Everett has procured a pair at Bintula 

 {vide supra, p. 16); and I have already shown that this species, 

 generally known as . flavoviridis , Moore (P.Z.S'. 1854, p. 78), 

 is the same as 0. atrigularis of Temminck, originally de- 

 scribed from Borneo, but not since procured in that island 

 till Mr. Everett's researches brought it again to light. The 

 Museum contains a Sumatran specimen collected by Mr. 

 Wallace, as well as others from Penan g and the peninsula of 

 Malacca. The latter locality supplied Mr. Moore with the 

 types of his O. flavoviridis. Mr. Hume (S.F. 1874, pp.478, 

 507) has also described a new species obtained by Mr. Davi- 

 son at Pahpoon, Kyouknyat, and Thayetchaun, in Tenasserim, 

 as 0. nitidus. This Lord Tweeddale (B. Burm. p. 121) has 

 correctly shown to be the same as the Malaccan bird ; and he 

 records it also as a bird of Burmah (/. c), as it has been pro- 

 cured near Rangoon by Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay. 



5. Orthotomus cinereiceps, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Adult male. General colour above bright olive-green; wing- 

 coverts and quills dark brown, all the feathers broadly edged 

 with the same green as the back, the greater coverts margined 

 and tipped with brighter yellow ; tail dark brown, narrowly 

 tipped with brighter yellow, but without any darker subter- 

 minal bar ; head dark ashy grey, the lores fulvescent ; sides 

 of face and a malar stripe blackish grey ; ear-coverts white ; 

 chin and sides of upper throat white ; centre of throat and 

 jugulum black, forming a large patch; fore neck, sides of 

 body, flanks, under tail-coverts, and thighs bright olive- green, 

 the latter slightly tinged with rufous ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish, the edge of the wing bright yellow; bill horn- 

 black, the lower mandible yellowish in skin ; feet fleshy brown 

 in skin; iris light hazel. Total length 5 inches, culmen0*6o, 

 wing 1*85, tail 1*9, tarsus 0"9 [coll, J. B. Steere). 



Hab. Island of Basilan, Philippines. 



This beautiful species is distinguished from all others of 



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