44 H. H. Godwin- Austen — Descriptions of new Birds. [No. 1, 



This beautiful Pomatorhinus, wliicli with the preceding species was 

 discovered during the past cold season, in its very slender and narrow bill 

 approaches the Xipliorhamjphus form more than any other species of this 

 group of Scimitar Babblers. In its coloration it reminds one of Fom. fer- 

 ruginosus. 



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 ap- 

 pearance. 



The collection also contains several other new and interesting species, 

 some of which I am unable to determine satisfactorily out here, but which, 

 shall be described in more detail in my next List of Birds from the N. E. 

 Frontier. I may mention (i) an Ahrornis with yellow chin, which I propose 

 naming A. Jlavogularis ; (ii) Chleuasicus atrosuperciliaris, intermediate 

 in size between Paradoxornis ruficeps and Ch. rujlceps ; (iii) Horornis 

 fuliginiventer, Hodg. ; (iv) Turdinus Williamsoni quite distinct from the 

 type of T. Irevicaudaius, Blyth, which is of a strong rufous colour on the 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; this rufous colour pervades the 

 back, and the spotting on the secondaries is smaller and less conspicuous 

 than in the specimen lately received from Saddya. 



