NEW SPECIES OF POMATORHINUS. 



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scarcely an inch in the extreme ones. Tarsi sub-elevate, stout, anteally 

 vaguely scaled, posteally, smooth and sharp. Toes medial, unequal, central 

 fore medially elongated ; laterals and hind sub-equal ; last shortest but 

 stoutest and sub-depressed basally, sometimes equal to the inner fore. 

 Nails rather large, compressed, somewhat straightened and obtuse ; lateral 

 fores equal ; central larger ; hind largest ; orbits nude as in Cinclosoma. 



Colour and Size. Above olive brown, laterally together with a narrow 

 band round the brows, the lining of the wings, the thighs, and entire under- 

 tail coverts, bright rusty. Below, white, dashed on the top of the breast 

 with dusky : a hoary spot before the eye : a short dusky moustache from 

 below the gape : remiges and rectrices internally dusky brown : tail trans- 

 versely rayed with deeper toned lines — seemingly a generic mark : legs 

 fleshy grey : bill horn colour with the ridge darkened basally : iris hoary : 

 orbitar skin smooth and deep blue : size 10|^ inches by il^, and oz. : 

 bill (in straight line) 1|-: tarsus 1|-: central toe hind toe -^Sg-. 



N. B, The sexes are alike in colour, save that the female has no 

 moustache. She is rather less, too, than her mate. 

 • 2r/ Species, new ; Schisticeps or slaty pate, nobis. 



Form, as in the preceding, but the bill rather shorter and somewhat 

 more compressed ; and the wings and tail slightly but sensibly more 

 elongated. 



Colour and Size. Above, together with the lower flanks, vent, thighs 

 and undertail coverts, dark olive green : crown, nape and ear coverts, 

 saturate slaty : lores black : from the ear coverts to the midflanks, the 

 sides of the neck and the body are intense ochreous red : a long superci- 

 liary white stripe from the nares to the shoulders : below, from chin to 

 belly, pure white : remiges and rectrices, internally dusky : tail, rayed as 

 before : bill bright orange yellow with a blackish base above : iris hoary : 

 orbitar skin smooth and slaty : legs fleshy brown with yellowish horn 

 nails : size of the last, but measuring rather more in extent owing to the 

 cause above mentioned : 11 inches long by 12^ wide, and 2^ oz. : bill 1§ : 

 tarsus 1^ : sexes alike. 



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