123 [Vol. xxxiii. 



" Young. Iris brown ; bill horn-coloured, lighter below ; 

 legs reddish-brown." 



The chick was killed on the 16th of July. 



Mr. Stuart Baker also showed three forms of the 

 Scimitar-Babbler, Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, and made 

 the following remarks : — 



" Pomatorhinus erythrogenys Vigors. 



" The earliest description of this bird is that published 

 by Vigors (cf. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 173) : ' Subtus albescens, 

 capitis colli abdominisque lateribus, crissoque rufis.' This 

 description is taken from the bird which formed the subject 

 of the plate by Gould in his ' Century of Himalayan 

 Birds/ Plate 55. Here the bird is described as having the 

 ' throat and underparts white/ and even the chin, though 

 shaded, is depicted as white. 



" It is not certain where this specimen was obtained : it is 

 said to be ' equally dispersed over the whole of the moun- 

 tainous regions of India/ There can, however, be little 

 doubt that it must have come from the extreme western 

 portion of the bird's range in the North-western Himalaya. 



" In 1826, Hodgson gave the MS. name, P. ferrugilatus , 

 to a species of Scimitar-Babbler, and in 1831 he again named 

 it P. goulcli. In 1836 he published a description of the 

 species under the latter name {cf. ' Asiatic Researches/ xix. 

 p. 180). 



u Dr. Hartert (Nov. Zool. v. p. 637), in reviewing the 

 Pomatorhini, revived the name P. ferrugilatus for the Nepal 

 form, which is very close to typical P. erythrogenys, but has 

 the chin and throat indistinctly marked with grey-brown or 

 ashy-brown. This Nepal bird, however, is nothing but an 

 intermediate form between typical P. erythrogenys and the 

 Scimitar-Babbler which extends east from Sikhim, and which 

 has the whole chin, throat, and upper breast dark ashy- 

 brown, the feathers having merely whitish bases on the chin 

 and throat, and white centres on the breast. The upper- 

 parts are also somewhat darker and less rufescent in the 



