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earthy brown, with coarse conspicuous dark brown shafts, and 

 more or less margined with the color of the rump ; chin, throat 

 and middle of abdomen nearly pure white ; breast white, tinged 

 with fulvous and specklily striated with black ; sides, flanks, 

 sides of abdomen and lower tail-coverts clear pale rather ochra- 

 ceous buff; tibial plumes slightly browner and more rufescent ; 

 lower surface of shafts of tail feathers white ; wino--linino- 

 nearest the body pure white, near the carpal joint pale buffy ; 

 inner margins of quills pale salmon buff. 



549 quat. — Suya erythropleura, Wold. Descr. S. E., 

 V., 58. 



Obtained at Tonghoo by Ramsay. Bon vidi. 



552 bis. — Neornis assimlis, Hodgs. 



I am by no means certain as to what this species is. The birds 

 given me by Dr. Jerdon as Drymoica brevicauda, Blyth, and 

 Neornis assimilis, Hodgs., are nothing but immature Horites 

 fortipes, which also have yellow on the under wino--coverts. 

 However Mr. Bly th examined Hodgson's specimens at home, and 

 I will quote his description and Major Godwin-Austen's, the more 

 so that the latter appears to have compared his specimens with 

 Blyth's brevicaudata. Very probably Dr. Jerdon's identification 

 of the birds he gave me was erroneous. 



Mr. Blyth says, Ibis, 1867, 22:— 



B. assimlis (Drymceca brevicaudata, nobis) is rufescent olive 

 brown above, much paler beneath, more or less whitish on the 

 throat and belly, and tinged with fulvous on the flanks ; fore-part 

 of the wing underneath pure yellowish white ; wing, 2 inches ; 

 tail, 2*25 inches ; its outermost feathers half an inch shorter; tarsi, 

 0*75 inches. A specimen from Afghanistan is of a paler general 

 hue, not quite so much inclined to ruddy, and more to greenish, 

 whilst B. montana of Java is darker, and wants the rufous tinge 

 above, but has it on the breast and flanks. N.flavolivacea is dull 

 greenish olive above, aud dull yellowish below.'"' 



His original description of brevicaudata, J. A. S. B., XVI., 

 459, 1847, was as follows : — 



" D. brevicaudata } nobis, N. S. — Length 5 inches and a quarter, 

 of wing, two and an eighth, and tail but two inches ; its outer- 

 most feathers half an inch shorter ; bill to gape, five-eighths, and 

 tarsi, three quarters of an inch ; color, plain uniform greenish olive 

 brown above, inclining to tawny towards the tail, paler and al- 

 bescent below, passing to olive on the flanks ; the anterior third 

 of the under-surface of the wing nearly pure white, bill dusky, 

 and legs pale ; from Darjeeling." 



