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chin; throat and fore neck deep chestnut, becoming paler and 
more rufous-brown on the breast and abdomen ; the sides of 
body and flanks somewhat duller brown; thighs and under 
tail-coverts dull rufous brown ; under wing-coverts and axilla- 
ries like the sides of the breast ; quills below blackish, ashy 
along the inner edge. Total length ro inches, culmen 0.95, 
wing 4.1, tail 4.5, tarsus 1.5. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 10 
inches, culmen 0.95, wing 3.8, tail 4.3, tarsus 1.4. 
Pomatorhinus Wray, sp. n. 
“No, 24.—6 92. Irides brown. This bird has a loud, 
clear, and rather pleasing song. It frequents the under- 
growth and often the ground, going about in pairs. Stomach 
contained insects.”’ 
This species represents P. ¢zckeldz in the Pérak mountains, 
but it is everywhere much darker in plumage, the head being 
dusky brown, inclining to dark ashy. The tail is black 
instead of rufous-brown. 
The following is a description of the typical pair of birds:— 
Adult female. General colour above reddish brown, with 
indistinct dusky cross-bars under certain lights; lower back 
and rump slightly more olivaceous; upper tail-coverts again 
reddish brown; lesser and median coverts reddish brown like 
the back; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 
quills blackish brown, externally reddish brown, inclining to 
chestnut on the quills ; tail-feathers blackish, washed external- 
ly with reddish brown, especially towards the base of the fea- 
thers, which are indistinctly barred with dusky under certain 
lights ; crown of head more dusky brown than the back, and 
only slightly washed with rufous ; lores ashy whitish ; behind 
the eye a bare spot; no distinct eyebrow, but a streak above 
the ear-coverts, formed by the white longitudinal centres of 
the feathers, larger and more distinct down the sides of the 
neck ; ear-coverts pale brown, followed by a reddish band 
down the sides of the neck; cheeks, throat, breast, and centre 
of abdomen white; sides of neck dusky brown, with some 
longitudinal white stripes intermingled ; fore neck and breast 
with dusky margins to some of the feathers; sides of 
breast and of abdomen ashy grey, mottled with lanceolata 
