116 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Ortliotomus. 



below Darjeeliiig. To the eastward it occurs in the Khasi 

 hills, as Major Godwin -Austen, in his list of the birds of 

 these and the North Kachar hills (J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 107), 

 mentions a specimen being shot near Cherra Punji iu October. 

 Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay has also obtained it in Burmah in the 

 Tsan-koo hills at an elevation of 3000 feet [cf. Walden in 

 Blyth, B. Burm. p. 121). 



Besides the above twelve species there are three which I 

 have not been able to make out, viz. : — 0. lofigirostris, Swains. 

 An. in Mena<'-. p. 343, Hab. Australia ! O. maculicoUis, F. 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 309, Hab. Malacca; and 0. hugelii, 

 Pelz., Hab. New Holland (?). 



P.S. Since this paper was finished Mr. T. J. Moore has 

 been so kind as to send me from the Derby Museum the type 

 of O. maculicoUis for examination. It is said to have been 

 obtained by Mr. Cuming in Malacca; but I think it just as 

 probable that the real locality may ultimately turn out to be 

 one of the Philippine Islands. It appears to be a distinct 

 species ; for although closely allied to 0. sutorius, it differs in 

 its blackish brown ear-coverts and sides of neck, which are 

 distinctly and rather broadly streaked with white. The fol- 

 lowing is a description of the type : — 



General colour above olive-green ; wings brown, the least 

 wing-coverts edged with olive-green, like the back, the greater 

 series and quills with brownish olive ; tail brown, undulated 

 under certain lights, the feathers margined with olive-green ; 

 crown of head rufous, the occiput and hind neck rather ashy 

 brown ; feathers in front of and round the eye buffy whitish ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of neck blackish brown, with distinct 

 longitudinal streaks of white ; cheeks and imder surface of 

 body white, the throat purest, the breast somewhat tinged 

 with buff; flanks dull olive ; sides of upper breast dark grey ; 

 under wing-coverts and edge of wing light buff, slightly washed 

 with olive-yellow ; quills below ashy brown, with a tawny buflF 

 edging along the inner web. Total length 4*3 inches, cul- 

 men 0-55, wing 1"8, tail 1'7, tarsus 0-8. 



