104 TIMELIID/E. 



553- Pomatorhinus ruficollis, Hodgs. As. Res. xix. p. 182 ; 



Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 175 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 29, No. 400; Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 138 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 96; Scully t. c, p. 287. 

 The RUFOUS-NECKED SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Above fulvous brown with an olivaceous tinge on the back. Head dusky 

 brown ; supercilium white ; lores, sides of the face and ear coverts black ; 

 cheeks and throat white, the feathers on the former tipped with yellowish 

 brown; neck chestnut rufous; breast whitish, the feathers streaked with 

 yellowish brown and with a distinct white shaft-streak ; sides of the body, 

 thighs, under wing and under tail coverts fulvous brown ; wing coverts and 

 quills like the back, the primaries washed with olive on their outer webs ; tail 

 brown, the feathers with obsolete, wavy dusky bars, their outer webs washed 

 with olive. Bill horny yellow, paler at tip ; base of maxilla and basal three- 

 fourths of culmen brownish black ; feet greenish plumbeous ; irides pale red 

 to crimson. 



Length. 8-5 inches; wing 3-15 to 3-2 ; tail 3-7 ; culmen 0*95 ; tarsus 1*2, 



The young is more rufescent, especially on the head, forehead, throat and 

 breast ; cheeks and chin white. 



Hab. Eastern Himalayas, extending to Bhootan and the Khasia Hills, also 

 the hills of Southern China. Sharpe records specimens from Nepaul, Darjeel- 

 ing and Sikkim. 



554. Pomatorhinus hypoleucus, Blyth, J, A. S. B. xiii, 



p. 371 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 31 ; id. 1879, p. 96; 1880, p. 253 ; Jerd. B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 32; Oates, B. Br. Burm., i. p. 75; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 428. Pomatorhinus Inglisi, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 31 ; 1879, p. 96; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 429 ; sub-sp. a. The ARRAKAN SCIMITAR- 

 BABBLER. 



Upper surface reddish brown, duller on the head ; lores dull ashy ; sides of 

 the face and ear coverts brown ; no eyebrow ; generally no streak of dull rufous 

 from above the eye, passing over the ear coverts to the sides of the neck ; cheeks, 

 throat, chin, breast and centre of abdomen white ; sides of the breast ashy, 

 each feather with a triangular patch of white; sides of the abdomen rufous 

 ashy ; under tail coverts ferruginous ; axillaries and under wing coverts ashy ; 

 culmen and base of upper mandible horny blackish. 



Length. 10*5 to 12 inches; wing 4-3; tail 4-3; tarsus 1*7; culmen 



Hal % The Khasia Hills, Arrakan and Cachar, extending to Assam and 

 Sikkim to the Garo Hills. 



