1847.] New or Little Known Species of Birds. 451 



ment of the black pectoral band, which in one is indeed wanting altoge- 

 ther, though on minute inspection a black dash may here and there be 

 seen upon a few of the feathers that should constitute the band in ques- 

 tion, and which band is particularly well developed in some Arracanese 

 specimens. The G. McClellandii, nobis, judging from Dr. McClelland's 

 figure of it, is probably a variety only^of G. moniliger. 



Pomatorhinus, Horsfield. A synopsis of this genus was attempted 

 in XIII, 946 ; to which I should have added P. Isidorei, Lesson, from 

 New Guinea, described in the Diet. Class. The form of the wing is, 

 however, so different in the Australian species, that (as long ago sug- 

 gested by Messrs. Jardine and Selby, in their * Illustrations of Ornitho- 

 logy,' it is probable that they will have eventually to be separated. 

 Two other additional species are described in XIV, 597 ; and I have 

 now to add 



P. olivaceus, nobis, n. s. : probably (rather than P. scJiisticeps) the 

 P. montanus apud McClelland and Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 166. 

 Allied to P. schistieeps, P. Ilorsfieldi, and P. montanus. Size of the 

 two last, with bill of intermediate length. Colour of the same uniform 

 dull olive-green above as in P. schisticejis, with a faint rufescent tinge 

 on the nape ; head of the same olive-colour as the back : throat, breast, 

 and middle of the belly, together with a long superciliary streak, pure 

 white; beneath the latter, the lores and ear- coverts are black, and 

 beyond the ear-coverts there is ferruginous spot on the side of the neck, 

 continued as a slight border to the white breast : flanks and lower tail- 

 coverts olivaceous, Bill yellow, the upper mandible dusky above at 

 base ; and feet leaden-brown. Length under nine inches ; the wing and 

 middle tail-feathers respectively three and seven-eighths ; bill to gape 

 an inch and a quarter ; and tarse the same. From the Tenasserim Pro- 

 vince of Ye, whence sent by Mr. Barbe. Dr. McClelland's figure of 

 his P. montanus, from Assam, seems to agree with this ; but may prove 

 upon examination to be distinct, in which case it might stand as P. 

 assamensis, McClelland, MS. From bill to forehead the drawing mea- 

 sures an inch, wing three inches and a half, and tail about three and 

 three-quarters. 



P. melanurus, nobis, n. s. Resembles P. Ilorsjieldi, but seems 

 always to have a shorter bill, and the colours are more brought out : the 

 hue of the upper-parts is more rufescent, the tail much blacker, and the 



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