152 NOVELTIES. 
Male.—Legs and feet pale fleshy brown; upper mandible 
blackish ; lower mandible very pale fleshy pink ; irides hazel. 
Female.—Legs and feet brown, with a fleshy tinge ; upper 
mandible dark brown; lower mandible pale horny pink ; irides 
brown. 
This Creeper belong to the unbarred-tailed section (vide 
S. F., V., 79). In this section C. nipalensis has the tail plain 
brown, the other three stoliczka, discolor and manipurensis all 
have the tail distinctly rufous. 
A glance at the lower surfaces will suffice to distinguish 
the three :— 
Throat and Breast. Lower abdomen. 
C. stoliczke ... White, with a warm buff tinge. Rich ferruginous brown. 
C. discolor ... Dingy earthy olive brown, with Dirty brownish grey. 
a faint yellowish shade. 
C. manipurensis ,., Pure buff. Dingy buffy grey. 
This species is nearest to discolor, with which I cannot 
help thinking it may have hitherto been confounded. The 
upper surface of the two are almost the same, only the pale 
markings are less buffy, and the bar on the outer webs of the 
primaries, which is a warm buff in discolor, is almost white in 
manipurensis. Moreover, the bill in this latter is longer, running 
to 0°82 (though several are less) from forehead to tip straight, 
against 0°75 as a maximum (the majority are rather less) in 
discolor. 
No detailed description is necessary. The upper parts 
might be mistaken for discolor, the lower never, when specimens 
of the two species are compared. Even in a much worn weathered 
specimen, in which the buffy throat and breast are become dull 
and somewhat greyish, the contrast between the colour of these 
parts in the two species at once attracts notice. 
Pomatorhinus austeni, Sp. Nov. ? 
Like P. ochraceiceps, but with the upper surface olive brown and the 
flanks olivaceous. 
There is a sub-group of three species of this genus, all charac- 
terized by long, compressed slender bills, of which one species 
has now to be described for the first time. They may be thus 
diagnosed :— 
Upper surface Breast and Upper Abdomen. Flanks. 
(1.) Olive brown. White. Olivaceous. P. austeni. 
(2.) », tinged ochraceous.Fulvous buff. Fulvous. P. stenorhynchus. 
(3.) » very strongly 
tinged ochraceous. White. Ochraceous. P. ochracciceps. 
The first I only know from the Eastern Manipur hills. The 
second I only know from the easternmost parts of the Debru- 
