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75. POMATORHINUS OCHRACEICEPS. 
LLOYD^S SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus ochraceiceps, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xii. p. 487 ; Wald. in 
Bl. B. Burm. p. 113 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 282 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, 
p. 465, pi. xiii., 1878, p. 136; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 281 ; Hume, S.F. viii. 
p. 96. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage bright ochraceous, 
the inner webs of the wing-feathers being pale brown ; tail paler ochraceous, 
the terminal halves of the feathers suffused with brown and obsoletely 
cross-barred with blackish ; feathers immediately close to the base of the 
upper mandible and the lores black ; a narrow supercilium extending to the 
nape white ; ear-coverts rich hair-brown ; chin_, throaty breast and centre 
of abdomen pure white ; sides of the abdomen, vent, flanks and under tail- 
coverts ochraceous. 
Legs, feet and claws pale dingy green or greenish brown ; bill bright 
vermilion-red ; shelf of nostrils black ; the irides varied much, being pale' 
greyish brown, very pale yellowish red^ light Indian red, and pinkish 
yellow. [Davison.) 
Length 9*5 inches, tail 4*3, wing 3*6, tarsus 1"3, bill from gape 1*4. 
Lloyd^s Scimitar Babbler was sent to Lord Walden from the Karin hills 
by the late Colonel Lloyd, Deputy Commissioner of Tonghoo. Capt. 
Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in Karennee, at an elevation of 2500 feet. 
Lieut. Lloyd, R.E., got one specimen when demarcating the frontier in 
Karennee ; and Mr. Davison observed it on the higher slopes of Mooleyit 
mountain, in Tenasserim, at elevations exceeding 3000 feet. It has not 
yet been observed elsewhere. 
76. POMATORHINUS PHAYRII. 
PHAYRE'S SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus phayrii, Bl. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 452 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 301 ; Bl. B. 
Burm. p. 113 ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. v. f. 2 ; Hume 8f Dav. 
S. F. vi. p. 279 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage, wings and 
tail pale ferruginous ; the feathers immediately at the base of the upper 
mandible and a broad streak extending from the lores under the eye, 
covering the ear-coverts and passing beyond them, black ; a long super- 
cilium^ reaching to the same distance as the black stripe, white slightly 
