280 BIKDS OF TENASSERIM. 



three and a quarter; bill to forehead an inch to one and one-eighth 

 and tarsi an inch and three-eighths. Colour greenish olive- 

 brown above ; the cap black in the male only ; lores and ear- 

 coverts a 7 so black in both sexes, extending a little along the 

 sides of the neck ; a long white supercilium, tinged with 

 rufous on the sides of the forehead in the male; throat, towards 

 the chin, also white, but the rest of the under-parts bright 

 ferruginous, fading on the belly ; bill deep coral-red ; and legs 

 dusky-brown. It is unusual, if not previously unexampled, 

 for the sexes in this genus to present any marked difference of 

 colouring. The species inhabits Darjeeling, and the mountains 

 of Arracan.'" 



But he later returned to the subject, J. A. S. B., XVI., 452, 

 j as follows. Note that he calls the bir d rubiginosus by mistake : — 



" P. rubiginosus, nobis, XIV., 597. — All the specimens of this 

 bird which I have hitherto seen, from Darjeeling, correspond 

 with my description of the supposed male, having the cap 

 black, and some erect lengthened plumes above the lores of the 

 same deep rufous as the breast; but the Arracan specimens, 

 three in number, which I have now seen, alike correspond 

 with my description of the supposed female, having the crown 

 of the same olivaceous hue as the rest of the upper-parts, this 

 being of a greener tinge than in the Darjeeling birds ; the 

 feathers above the lores short and white, like the rest of the 

 supercilium, and the rufous of the under-parts is much weaker 

 and more fulvescent. Hence, I now suspect that they are 

 two distinct species, and shall designate that of Arracan, P. 

 -~ pliayrei." 



We have neither seen nor heard anything of this species about 

 Tavoy, and I cannot but look upon its occurrence, in Tenasserim 

 at all, as doubtful. 



401 ter. — Pomatorlrinus tnarice, Wald. Descr. S. I\, 

 III., 404. 



This bird was described from specimens obtained in the 

 Tonghoo Hills by Wardlaw'Ramsay ; but, as already pointed out, 

 S. F., V., 136, 1 am unable to discover how it differs from P. 

 albigularis, Blyth. This latter species we have from the precisely 

 same locality from which the type came, and it agrees precisely 

 with Lord Walden's description of marice ; if, therefore, marice 

 does differ, the very points of difference have been most unfor- 

 tunately omitted from the description. 



For the present, therefore, I hold the distinctness of this species 

 to be doubtful, the more so that Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay 

 in his latest Paper seems equally doubtful of this. 



