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549. Pomatorhinus ferruginosus, Hodgs., icon. ined. in Br. 



Mus. Passeres, pi. 92 ; lllyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 597 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 29, No. 401 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. 

 p. 249 ; Scully, /. c. p. 288 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 422. The 

 FERRUGINOUS SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Above, including the wing coverts, dark olive brown ; crown of the head, 

 nape, lores, and feathers below the eye black ; a tuft of chestnut feathers above 

 the lores ; supercilium, extending to the nape, white ; quills brown, the outer 

 webs margined with reddish brown ; tail light brown ; the feathers washed 

 with olivaceous on their edges, and obsoletely cross-barred with dusky ; 

 cheeks, chin, and upper throat white ; lower throat, foreneck, and chest bright 

 orange chestnut, becoming duller and paler on the centre of the breast ; sides 

 of body, abdomen, and under tail coverts olive brown, slightly tinged with 

 rufous. Bill coral red; legs greenish brown ; irides red brown. 



Length. 7-5 to 8*25 inches; wing 3-4 to 3-5; tail 3-25 to 37; tarsus l'35; 

 culmen 1*2. 



Hob. Eastern Himalayas, Nepaul, and Sikkim at from 3,000 to 6,00o feet 

 elevation. Jerdon says he procured it near Darjeeling, but knew nothing 

 peculiar in its habits. According to Hodgson's notes, however, it breeds in 

 Sikkim, making a more or less egg-shaped nest, with the longer diameter 

 horizontal, some 7x5 inches, with an opening of 3 inches diameter at one 

 end. Eggs 4 5, elongated ovals, pure white, and measuring ro8 x 0*7. 



550. Pomatorhinus Phayrii, Biyth,J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 452; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 220; Godw.-Aust. J . A. S. B. xxxix. p. 103; Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. iv. fig 2 ; Hume and J)av., Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 96 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 73 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 

 422. PHAYRE'S SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Above, including the head and wing coverts and outer webs of the quills, 

 olivaceous brown ; the secondaries slightly washed with rufous ; tail light 

 brown, washed with olive brown on the margins of the feathers ; base of the 

 forehead, a line along the sides of the crown, eyelid, and a line from the 

 lores extending to and beyond the ear coverts black; supercilium white; 

 cheeks, chin, and upper throat white ; rest of under surface of the body chest- 

 nut, or light tawny rufous ; the flanks, vent, and under tail coverts olive brown ; 

 under wing coverts and axillaries pale olive brown. 



Length. 9 inches; wing 3*7; tail 4*1; tarsus 1*3 ; culmen i'2; from 

 gape 1-3. 



Hob. Arrakan, extending to the Khasia Hills. It occurs in Munipur and 

 in the hill tracts of Bengal. 



