412 RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



edgings; flanks and under wing-coverts 'ashy, tinged with the 

 hue of the upper plumage ; thigh-coverts white, mixed with 

 ashy ; under tail-coverts bright ferruginous. Wing 4f ; bill 

 from nostril, If ; tarsus, 6| ; tail, 4f . 



This species must be added to the Indian fauna having been 

 sent by Hodgson (?) probably irom Sikkim. It occurs also in 

 Assam. Tickeil (Journ. As. Soc, Beng., 1855, p. 273) notes 

 that the bill in this species is softer than in typical Pomatorhi- 

 nus, and is sub-cylindrical ; the sinciput is flat, the tail broad 

 and fan-like ; and it might, perhaps, with P. erythrogenys 

 form a peculiar group. It is the type of Orthorhinus, Blyth, 

 1. c. — Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 301. 



Pomatorhinus McClellandi, Jerdon. 



This bird was noted by me (B. of India, Vol. II., p. 32J 

 from specimens procured on the Khasia Hills. I have since 

 found it by no means rare in Assam, down, to the level of the 

 river Brahmapootra ; and Godwin- Austen got it in Sylhet. I 

 add a brief description. 



Above ashy olive, appearing faintly tinged with ferruginous 

 in some lights; forehead distinctly ferruginous ; lores, a 

 large spot at the gape, chin, throat, breast and abdomen 

 white ; some of the pectoral feathers tipped with pale spots, 

 coloured like the upper plumage; flanks and some of the 

 abdominal plumes dingy ferruginous ash ; nareal plumes and 

 ear-coverts ferruginous ; thigh-coverts and under tail-coverts 

 bright ferruginous ; a broad stripe following the rami of the 

 mandible. Wing, 3£ ; tail, 3£ ; tarsus,4-! ; bill from gape, f . — 

 Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 302. 



Garrulax gularis, McClelland, P.Z.S., 1839, p. 159, 

 Gould, B. Asia, pt. XIX., pi. 15. 



Description. — Head and nape dark fuliginous ashy ; throat, 

 cheeks, and upper breast lemon-colour ; chin, lores, streak below 

 the eyes, including the ear-coverts, and a small tuft of feathers 

 on the sides of the mandible near the gape black ; upper plu- 

 mage cinnamon-brown, brightest on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 lower breast pale lemon-colour, clouded with ashy ; sides of the 

 breast fuliginous ashy, not so dark as the head ; abdominal 

 region, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts bright ferru- 

 ginous, deepening into mahogany on the flanks ; the two 

 middle pairs of rectrices rich brown, with a broad terminal 

 band of dark brown ; remaining pairs uniform bright ferrugi- 

 nous ; legs and nares in dried specimens yellow ; bill horn- 

 colour. Wing, 4 ; tail, 1 ; tarsus, 1 1 ; bill from nostril, |. 



