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551. Pomatorhinus albigularis, Biyth, J. A. s. E. xxiv. 



p. 274; Bl. and Wald. JB. Burm. p. 113; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, P- 136; 

 War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. v. fig. I ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 

 1879, P- Q^; Gates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 74 ; Sharpe, Cat B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 423. Pomatorhinus mariae, Wald. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xv. 

 p. 403 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, i. p. 280. The WHITE-THROATED or 

 BLYTH'S SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Above, including the head and wing coverts, rufescent brown or fulvescent 

 olive brown ; markings on the head the same as in P. Phayrii ; cheeks, chin 

 and throat white; quills reddish brown externally; tail umber brown, the 

 feathers shaded with reddish brown on their edges and with obsolete dusky 

 cross bars ; under surface of the body light ochraceous buff, or pale buffy ; 

 sides of the breast, flanks and under tail coverts olivaceous brown ; thighs, 

 axillaries, and under wing coverts pale tawny huff. Bill vermilion red; legs 

 and feet pale greenish brown, sometimes a dingy brownish green ; irides 

 creamy white. 



Length. 9*6 to 10 inches; tail 4-2 ; wing 3-8 to 3*9; tarsus 1-35 to 1-4; 

 bill from gape ri2; culmen 1-15. 



Hab. Tenasserim, where it was first observed on the Mooleyit Mountain 

 at 5,000 to 6,000 feet elevation. It has also been found on the Tounghoo Hills 

 by Captain Wardlaw-Ramsay. 



552. Pomatorhinus stenorhynchus, Godwin- Austen,J. A.S.B. 



xlvi. p. 43 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 342; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 

 135, pi. v. fig 2 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 424. The ASSAM SCIMITAR- BABBLER. 



General colour above light ochraceous olive brown ; the head like the back, 

 but rather richer ochraceous ; wing coverts like the back ; those near the edge 

 of the wing somewhat washed with ashy ; quills dusky, externally like the 

 back ; tail feathers dark olive brown, obscurely barred with dusky under certain 

 lights, and washed on their margins with the same colour as the back a broad 

 white eyebrow from the base of the forehead reaching nearly to the occiput, but not 

 fringed above by a line of black on the sides of the crown ; lores, feathers below 

 the eye, and ear-coverts black, not extending on to the sides of the neck; 

 cheeks and throat white, fading on the latter into the light fulvous of the under 

 parts ; the abdomen whiter ; the sides of the body a little deeper than the 

 breast and inclining to tawny ; flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts olive 

 brown ; under wing coverts and axillaries very light reddish, the edge of the 

 wing ashy. Legs and feet horny grey ; bill bright orange red. (Godwin- 

 Austen ex. Sharpe.) 



Length. 8-5 inches ; wing 37 ; tail 4-1 ; tarsus T2. (Mus. R. G. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay.) Sharpe. 



Hab. Upper Assam. 



