634 AVES. 



The rusty colour is most intense immediately behind the black ear-corerts. 

 The tarsus is 1"'25. This species is closely allied to the P. musicus, Swinhoe, 

 which has the breast spots dark-brown instead of pale rusty -olive, and the belly 

 marked with bright rusty-red. The differences between the Pormosan and Momien 

 specimens, both of which are before me, are not greater than those which exist 

 between it and undoubted specimens of P. erytlirogenys, Gould. The tail, as in 

 the generality of the species of this genus, is faintly barred. 



I found this bird solitary, in a hedgerow enclosing a potatoe field near Momien. 



119. POMATOEHINTJS ERTTHBOGEKYS, VigOrS. 



Pomatorhiniis erytlirogenys, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1831, p. 173; Gould, Cent. Himal. Birds, 

 pi. Iv, 1832; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, p. 175, 1842; vol. xii, p. 946, 1843; 

 G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 229, 1846; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 146, 

 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 220, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., 

 p. 235, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 31, 1863; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 277, 1869; 

 Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 301 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 476; Brooks, op.cit., 1875, 

 p. 237; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 113. 



Pomatorhinusferrngllatus, Hodgs., As. Res., vol. xix, p. 100, 1836. 



a. Momien, 3rd June 1868. 



This specimen agrees in every respect with one from Simla, except that the 

 breast is dashed with dark-brown instead of diisky, of the same intensity as in 

 P. erythrocnemis, Gould, to wliicli it has a wonderful resemblance in many ways ; 

 but the bright rusty of the knees and vent are not darker than the rusty on tlie 

 sides of the abdomen and body generally. This specimen was found in the same 

 locality as the previous bird (P. ruficolUs). 



Genus Timalia, Horsfield. 

 120. Timalia pileata, Horsfd. 



Timalia pileata, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, 1821, p. 151 ; Zool. Research., Java; Gray, 



Cat. Mamm., &c, Nepal, Hodgs., 1846, p. 85; Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii, 1862, p. 24; 



Hume, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 476; op. cit, 1875, p. 118; Armstrong, op. ciL, 1876, p. 323; 



Gates, op. cit, 1877, p. 152. 

 Niipodes joileata, Cabanis, Mus. Heine., th. i, p. 77, 1860. 

 Timalia jerdoni, Walden, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1872, vol. x, p. 61 ; Blyth & Walden, Journ. 



As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 114. 

 Timalia bengalensis, Godwin- Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xli, 1872, p. 143 ; op. cit., vol. xlv, 



1876, p. 75. 



a. Yaylaymaw, 5th January 1875. 



b. ? Bhamo, 4th February 1868. 



The top of the head of this species would be more accurately described as rich 

 chestnut, instead of bright rusty -red. I count as many as fourteen dark-brown bars 

 on the tail. They are so prominent as to attract attention. The line of union of 



