RECENTLY-DESCRIBED SPECIES. 3-13 



black and bounded posteriorly with rufous brown. Chin and 

 upper throat pure white, breast and abdomen pale rufescent, 

 flanks and under tail-coverts pale ochraceous brown. 



Bill very long, tapering, curved, and much compressed ; 

 bright orange-red. Legs and feet horny grey. 



<? Length abt. 8"; wing 4" ; tail 4-4"; tarsus 1 35" ; bill at front T45" 

 ? ,,325; „ 39; „ 120; „ 115 



The female is thus very decidedly smaller than the male. 



Hab. — Obtained on Manbum Tilla, on Tenga Pani River, 

 near Suddya at 800 ft. (M. J. Ogle). 



This beautiful Pomatorhinus, which with the preceding 

 species was discovered during the past cold season, in its very 

 slender and narrow bill approaches the Xiphorhamphus form 

 more than any other species of this group of Scimitar Bab- 

 blers. In its coloration it reminds oue of Pom. ferruginosus.* 



The claw of the inner toe is smaller than the outer, and all 

 the claws are rounded off at the tip so as to have a peculiarly 

 blunt gouge-like appearance. J. A. S. B., XLVL, pt., 2, 

 p. 43, 1877. 



Sitta magna, Wardlaw Ramsay. 



General colour above, dark bluish slate colour; a black stripe, 

 a quarter of an inch broad, on either side of the head, running 

 from the base of the bill over the eye to the shoulder ; the 

 upper part of the head and neck between these stripes smoky 

 grey. 



Wings of much the same colour as the back. Primaries 

 and secondaries, dark brown ; more or less edged on the outer 

 web with bluish slate. The second, third, and fourth primaries 

 are slightly margined with whitish on the outer web, and, with 

 the fifth and sixth, are white at the base. Under surface of 

 wing, greyish brown, jet-black under the shoulder. 



Tail, with two central tail-feathers, concolorous with the back, 

 remainder dark brown, almost black, outer pair broadly tipped 

 with white on outer web, and margined with white on inner ; 

 next two broadly tipped with white on outer, and grey on 

 inner web. 



Under surface of body smoky grey, nearly white about 

 throat and neck. 



* It is very much more closely affined to P. ochraceiceps, Wald, S. F., III., p. 282, 

 from which, after a careful comparison of Suddya and Tenasserim Hill specimens, I 

 decided not to separate it. All that can be said is that in typical specimens the upper 

 surface is slightly more olivaceous, than that of ochraceiceps, and that the lower throat, 

 breast and middle of abdomen are a faint rufous bulf instead of pure white, and that the 

 sides and flanks are more olivaceous and duskier. But the intermediate forms I have 

 lead me to doubt the validity of the species. — Ed., S. F. 



