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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
bordered by black above ; cheeks^ chin and upper throat white ; remainder 
of lower surface chestnut^ turning to olive-brown on the flanks^ vent and 
under tail-coverts. 
Irides pale yellow. {Godw.-Aust.) 
Length 9 inches, tail 4'1, wing 3*7, tarsus 1'3, bill from gape 1'3. 
Phayre^s Scimitar Babbler was described by Mr. Blyth from specimens 
received from Arrakan. He states that this bird also occurs in Tenasserim, 
at Tavoy ; but he probably mistook P. albigularis for it. 
It occurs in Munipore and in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal. It is 
also said to occur in Nipal or Sikhim ; but this assertion requires con- 
firmation. 
77. POMATORHINUS ALBIGULARIS. 
BLYTH^S SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus albogularis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 274 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 113 ; 
Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 135, pi. v. f. 1 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 281, 
514 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96. Pomatorhinus mariae, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. 
ser. 4, XV. p. 403 ; Hume, S. F. hi. p. 404, v. p. 136. 
Description. — Male and female. Very similar to P. phayrii ; the upper 
plumage rich rufescent, the lower pale buffy where in P. phayrii it is ferru- 
ginous ; the throat is white for a greater distance from the bill, and the 
supercilium is broader. 
Legs and feet pale greenish brown, sometimes a dingy brownish green ; 
bill vermilion-red ; irides creamy white. {Davison.) 
Length 9'6-10 inches ; tail 4*2; wing 3-8-3-9; tarsus l-35-I'4 ; bill 
from gape 1*13. {Davison.) 
Blyth's Scimitar Babbler was first observed on Mooleyit mountain, in 
Tenasserim, at 5000 to 6000 feet elevation. It was found again in the 
same locality by Mr. Davison, and subsequently at the foot of Nwalabo, 
near Tavoy. Dr. Mason asserts that it is common round about Tavoy ; 
and as there is no other very closely allied species there, he is doubtless 
correct. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it in the Tonghoo hills. It 
appears to be a comparatively rare species. 
Allied species to the preceding three are P. ferruginosus from the 
Himalayas, with the crown and nape black, and P. stenorhynchus from 
the Eastern Bengal hills. 
