1875.] ON NEW SPECIES OF BIRDS EEOM BURMA. 415 



Tkichastoma eubiginosa, n. sp. 



Unclerneatli lively chestnut-red ; mesial line from chin to hreast, also of abdomen, white ; 

 above dingy olive-brown, somewhat tinged with ferruginous ; reraiges and rectrices pale brown, 

 outer edges of quills ferruginous ; inner edges of quills pallid rusty ; lores grey. 



Wing 3 inches, tarsus 1-38, tail 2-50, bill from forehead 0-94. 



"Iris light brown to blackish brown; bill above pale (horny), below yellowish at gape; 

 legs dull pinkish white. Karen-nee" [Wardlaw Bamsay). 



Described from an example marked a female. 



ACTINUKA EAMSAYI, n. sp. 



Under surface from chin to vent clear ochreous buff, somewhat darker on the chin and /i . ^ > ^ 

 throat ; upper surface cinereous olive ; forehead almost ferruginous ; crown and crest, with tlie y-^ ■ ^ 

 nape, like the back, but tinged with ferruginous ; most of the dorsal feathers traversed by faint, 

 yet distinct, narrow dark brown bands or lines, which on the upper tail-coverts are more closely 

 set together and very conspicuous ; lores and cheeks dark brown, almost black ; sides of the head 

 behind the eyes and some of the lateral crest-plumes ashy, without any ferruginous tino-e ; eyelids 

 white ; primaries narrowly barred with black on their outer webs up to their insertion, also the 

 minor coverts; all the rectrices olive-brown, like the tertiaries, and distinctly barred with 

 numerous well-defined narrow black bands ; all but middle pair broadly tipped with white ; 

 under tail-coverts and flanks somewhat darker than remainder of under surface. 



Wing 3"50 inches, tarsus 1"12, tail 5, bill from forehead 0'87. 



"Iris light hair-brown, bill horny brown, legs slaty brown. ?. Karen-nee*" (Wardlaw 

 Bamsay). 



This is a representative form of A. erjertoni, from which it chiefly differs by its light ochreous 

 under surface, by the colouring of the upper plumage, by the primaries being barred throughout A. M. N. H. 

 their length, by the minor coverts being barred, and by the distinct barring of the tail. ser.4,vol xv 



POMATORHINUS MARI^f, n. Sp. 



A stripe commencing at the nostril, and which passes back over the eye and down the sides 

 of the neck, white, but partly rusty fulvous near the nostril ; above this white stripe, and bordering 

 its length, a narrow black stripe ; all the head within the boundaries of the superciliary black 

 stripe and the nape dark rusty olive ; rest of upper surface dull olive-brown, with a rusty tinge ; 

 lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; chin and throat pure white ; flanks, thigh-coverts, and under 

 tail-coverts pale earthy brown, with a rusty tinge ; breast and abdominal region pale creamy white 

 or pale buff, contrasting with the pure white throat ; quills and rectrices liver-brown. 



Wing 3-50 inches, tail 4-25, tarsus 1-12, bill from forehead I'lS. 



Described from an individual marked a female, and obtained in the Tonghoo hills by 

 Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay. P. phayrei is its nearest ally ; but in it the entire under surface 

 from the chin is bright ferruginous ; it likewise has the entire upper surface of an almost uniform 

 dull olive-brown, with but a faint ferruginous tinge. 



* [At Kyai-pho-gyee.— Ed.] f [=p. alhigularis, BIjth.— Ed.] 



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