THE ARRAKAN SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
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78. POMATORHINUS EEYTHEOGENYS. 
THE RUSTY-CHEEKED SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831; p. 173 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 31 ; 
Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 251 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 113 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1878, p. 142 ; Anders. Yunnan Ex2)ed. p. 634 ; Hume, S. F. Yiii. p. 96 ; Scidly, 
S. F. viii. p. 288 ; Gammie, S. F. viii. p. 453. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage,, with wings and 
tail^ olive-brown ; the forehead^ cheeks^ ear-coverts^ sides of the neck and 
breast (almost meeting across the breast)^ sides of the body^ flanks^ vent^ 
thighs and under tail-coverts chestnut ; chin and throat whitish, sometimes 
ashy and sometimes smoky brown ; centre of the breast and abdomen pure 
white. 
Bill dingy grey horny ; the base of the maxilla blackish^ and the base of 
the mandible greenish; irides yellowish white or hoary; feet brownish 
fleshy ; claws brown horny. [Scully.) 
Length 10 inches^ tail 4*1^ wing 3*6, tarsus 1'4^ bill from gape I'45. 
The Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler has been procured by Mr. Davison 
in Tenasserim in the pine-forests of the Salween^ and also at Thatone, 
about 50 miles north-west of Moulmein. It does not appear to have been 
procured in any other part of Burmah. 
It is a common bird in the Himalayas^ from Simla down to Bhootan. 
Col. Godwin-Austen procured it in the hill-ranges of Eastern Bengal^ and 
Dr. Anderson near Bhamo. 
The nest is placed on the ground in a clump of coarse grass, amongst 
dead leaves. It is domed and constructed of dry grass^ dead leaves and 
moss-roots. The eggs are three in number and white in colour. It 
probably breeds in Burmah from April to June. 
79. POMATOEHINUS HYPOLEUCUS. 
THE ARRAKAN SCIMITAR BABBLER. 
Orthorhinus hypoleucos, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 371 ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. 31, viii. 
p. 96, ix. p. 253. Pomatorhinus hypoleucos, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 597 ; BL 
B. Burm. p. 113 ; Godiv.-Aust. P. A. S. Beng. 1877, p. 147 ; Wardlaiv Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1878, p. 140. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage reddish brown, 
duller on the head ; lores grey ; ear-coverts plain brown ; a streak beginning 
over the eye, passing over the ear-coverts and expanding into a patch at 
