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green; the tail of a yellowish green, marked near the end and on the 
inner web with a narrow yellowish band; the chin, throat, breast and 
upper parts of flanks pure black, the sides of the abdomen yellowish ; 
middle of the belly and abdomen white; bill and feet brown. No 
difference in the sexes. 
“Length, 34 inches.”— Temm. 
3. ORTHOTOMUS FLAVOVIRIDIS, nobis. 
The forehead, crown, round the eyes, and occiput ferruginous ; 
back and rump yellowish green; tail more dusky green; wings 
brown, broadly margined exteriorly throughout with yellowish green ; 
chin, base of lower mandible, ear-coverts, centre of some of the feathers 
of the throat and breast white ; lower part of the breast ash and white ; 
centre of abdomen white; throat and fore part of the breast black, 
centred as above; flanks yellowish ; extreme edge of shoulder of wing 
yellow; under part of tail yellowish, with a terminal dusky band, 
tipped with yellowish; thighs greenish ferruginous. Specimens 
labelled ‘ male.” 
Length, 4 inches; of wing, 13; tail, 1}; bill to gape, =’; tarsus, 74. 
Hab. Malacca. In Mus. East India Company. 
4. OrTHOTOMUS EDELA, Temminck. 
Syn. Orthotomus edela, Temm. Pl. Col. 599. f. 2 (1836). G. R. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162, Blyth, Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 144. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 
Motacilla sepium, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soe. xiii. p.. 313. Lath. 
Hist. vii. p. 218 (nec Horsf. v. Lafres.). 
Edela ruficeps, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 212. t. 71 (1834) (nec Less. 
Tr. d’Orn.). 
Kachichi of the Malays of Sumatra, Raffles. 
Hab. Malayan peninsula; Sumatra. In Mus. East India Com- 
pany. 
O. edela.— The forehead, lores and crown ferruginous; the 
entire lower parts whitish, but the sides of the neck slightly varie- 
gated with clear ashy; back of neck, back, wing-coverts and tail 
greenish ; the wings ashy, but bordered with greenish ferruginous ; 
the tail is regularly of one colour; the bill and feet brownish.”— 
Temm. 
Length, 41 inches ; of wing, 13; tail, 14; bill to gape, 3; tarsus, =, 
5. ORTHOTOMUS RUFICEPS, Lesson. 
Syn. Edela ruficeps, Less. Tr. d’Ornith. p. 309 (1831) (nee Less. 
Cent. Zool.). 
Orthotomus sericeus, Temm. Pl. Col. Texte, 599 (1836). G. R. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 
Hab. Malacca; Borneo. 
O. ruficeps.—The forehead, crown, occiput, lores and upper part 
of ear-coverts bright ferruginous ; the chin, base of lower mandible, 
lower part of ear-coverts and the rest of the under parts silky white ; 
