Mr. F. Moore on species of Orthotomus. 131 



A specimen in the East India Company's Museum, from Malacca, 

 has the centre of the throat and the whole of the breast and flanks 

 lightish ash, pahng to silky white on the centre of the belly ; the 

 under tail-coverts are also white ; wings brown, the primaries mar- 

 gmed exteriorly with pale dusky ferruginous, the secondaries vAth. 

 ashy ohve ; extreme edge of wing, under spurious wing-coverts and 

 exterior margin of the latter ferruginous white, contrasting with the 

 ash on the breast ; under wing-coverts white. The wing and tarsus 

 are both an eighth of an inch longer. Other characters as in the 

 description above. 



7. Orthotomus longirostris, Swainson. 



Syn. Orthotomus longirostris, Swains. 2i Cent. p. 343 (1837); 

 Classif. Birds, ii. p. 62. f. 135. G-. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162. 

 Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 



Hab. S.W. Australia (Sivains.). Malacca? 



O. longirostris.—'' Cinereous ; sides of the body beneath cinereous, 

 the middle white ; head, chin and thighs ferruginous ; throat black ; 

 tail brownish, graduated, the latter with dusky black ends, tipped 

 with whitish ; bill and legs pale. 



"Length, 4^ inches; wing, 2yL; tail, beyond 1; base, 1^^; bill to 

 gape,^; tarsus,^." — Swains. 



This species differs from O. cineraceus m having a black throat, 

 and in the wing being three-tenths of an inch longer, the tarsus also 

 being longer by a quarter of an inch. Mr. Swainson has given S.W. 

 Austraha as the habitat of this species, which must evidently be an 

 error. 



8. Orthotomus cucullatus, Temminck. 



Syn. Orthotomus cucullatus, Temm. PI. Col. 599. f. 3 (1836). 

 G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 



Hab. Java; Sumatra. 



O. cucullatus.— "Top of the head bright ferruginous ; neck, cheeks, 

 and the sides of the breast of a pure ash ; the neck in front, the 

 breast, and the middle of the belly are pure white ; the sides, the 

 thighs and the abdomen of a citron-yellow ; back and wings of a 

 greenish tint, the quills and tail margined with greenish ; upper man- 

 dible brown, the lower as well as the feet yellomsh." — Temminck. 



9. Orthotomus longicauda, Gmelin. 



Motacilla longicauda et sutoria, Gmel. S. N. L. i. pp. 954, 997. 



Orthotomus longicauda, Strickl. Ann. N. H. xiii. p. 35. Blyth, 

 J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 377 ; Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 144. 

 G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162. Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. xvii. 

 pt. 1. p. 298. Button, J. A. S. Beng. x\di. pt. ii. p. 691. Bonap. 

 C. G. Av. p. 281. Layard, Ann. N. H. 1853, p. 262. 



Sylvia longicauda et sutoria. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. pp. 545, 551; 

 Gen. Hist. vii. pp. 79, 119. Vieill. Enc. Mcth. p. 456. 



Malurus longicaudus, Pearson, J. A. S. Beng. x, p. 644. 



Sylvia guzuratta. Lath. Ind. Orn. h. p. 554; Gen. Hist. vii. p. 129. 



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