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distinctly rayed; chin, throat, base of lower mandible, middle of 
belly and vent white; ear-coverts, sides of the neck and breast pale 
rufescent, brightening on the flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts ; 
under wing-coverts also rufescent ; bill black, yellowish beneath at 
base ; legs pale horny. 
Length, 83 inches ; of wing, 23; tail, 31; bill to frontal plumes, 2; 
to gape, 1 inch ; height from chin to front, ;2,; tarse, 1 inch ; middle 
toe and claw, 1,*;; central and lateral ditto, ;4,; hind ditto, =%. 
Hab. Nepal. (No. 892. Hodgs. Catal.) 
This bird may be distinguished from Pyct. sinensis (better known 
under the name of Timalia hypoleuca) by its larger size, by the 
lengthened bill, the rufescent colour of the under parts, and by the 
absence of white before the eye. It may possibly be the species no- 
ticed by Mr. I. W. Frith, in the ‘ Journ. As. Soc. Beng.’ xii. p. 370, 
as being found in Bengal, which he states ‘differs from the common 
species in being about half larger.” 
I may here notice, in connexion with this genus, that Mr. Hodg- 
son, in ‘Proc. Zool. Soc.’ 1845, p. 24, refers his genus Pyctorhis only 
to sinensis, and not to the bird named rujifrons, which is there 
described as an Actinodura, it being synonymous with the species 
previously described by Mr. Gould under the name of Actinodura 
Egerton. 
Family Syiviap4, Vigors. 
Subfamily Syzvrana, Vigors. 
Genus Horeires, Hodgson. 
2. HorerrEes mAsor, Hodgson. 
Above olive-brown, ruddier on the wings ; tail rounded, more of a 
dusky-brown, with the outer webs fringed with olive-brown ; cap red- 
brown; a yellowish-ferruginous superciliary streak, extending over 
the ear-coverts ; upper part of the latter ruddy-brown, lower ashy ; 
throat, sides of neck, centre of breast and abdomen ashy-white ; sides 
of the breast and flanks olive-brown; bill dark horn-colour, yel- 
lowish at base beneath ; feet also yellowish. 
Length, 5 inches ; of wing, 24; tail, 22;, outer feather 1 an inch 
shorter than the middle; bill to front, 2; to gape, £; tarsus, 5%; 
middle toe and claw, 545; inner ditto, ;5,; outer ditto rather more than 
4 an inch. 
» Hab. Nepal. (No. 946. Hodgs. Catal.) 
This species may easily be distinguished by its greater size, 
and larger bill, the wings being much longer, though rounded as in 
the other species, and by the nearly total absence of ash-colour on 
the under parts ; the feet also are much longer and stronger. 
