384 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



The colour of the sexes is alike. The back, wings, flanks, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts rich olive brown with a rufous 

 tinge, especially on the flanks ; from the base of the upper man- 

 dible to the nape black, extending to the mixed olive brown 

 and black on the top of the head ; throat, breast, middle of 

 abdomen, and a conspicuous supercilium pure silky white ; tail 

 blackish brown. The youfjg bird is much more rufous gener- 

 ally, and has the ear-coverts and the sides of the neck and 

 breast quite rusty. 



Lord Walden has a series of specimens of PomatorMnus, the 

 localities of which are not very intelligible on the labels ; but 

 the birds were probably obtained in the south or south-east of 

 the island. All these have the upper surface quite rufous, extend- 

 ing also to the tail ; this colouring is not found in one of the 

 many specimens I have obtained from Nuwara Eliya, and is so 

 marked as almost to justify a specific distinction. 



Bill yellow, with the base dusky above ; irides dark red ; feet 

 lead colour. — Roldsworth. 



409 bis.— Garrulax cinereifrons, Blyth. 



I have examined a great number of specimens of this species, 

 and have found them agree very closely with each other, but they 

 differ so materially in dimensions from those given by Blyth 

 that I can only suppose he had but one example before him, and 

 that an immature bird. This impression is confirmed by the 

 specific name cinereifrons, given by him, and agreeing with 

 his description — "Forehead and cheeks pale ashy' - ' — whereas 

 the birds I have examined have the whole top of the head ashy, 

 that colour often extending over the nape, as well as the cheeks, 

 which are paler than the rest of the head ; chin albescent, be- 

 coming rufous on the throat ; in other respects the colours 

 agree with Blyth's description. The dimensions of a specimen I 

 obtained at Kandy, and which is not at all unnaturally stretched 

 out, but fairly represents an adult bird, measures fully 10 inches 

 instead of 8*5 ; the other comparative dimensions are : — Wing, 

 4-75,4-5 ; tail, 4-5, 4 ; bill to gape, 1-3, 1-25 ; tarsus, 1*5, T25. 



Bill black; irides buff; feet dusky. — Holdsworth. 



Akin to G. delesserti of the Nilgiris, but differing much in 

 its colouring. General hue a rich brown above, much paler 

 below ; forehead and cheeks pale ashy ; chin and borders of the 

 outer primaries albescent ; bill blackish ; legs dusky corneous. 

 Length, 8-5 inches ; wing, 4-5 ; tail 4 ; its outermost feather, 

 1-12 shorter ; bill to gape, 1*25 ; tarsi, 1*25. — Blyth. 



