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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
the side of the neck ferruginous; chin^ throat_, breast and centre of 
abdomen white; sides of the breast ashy, each feather with a large tri- 
angular patch of white ; sides of the abdomen rufous ashy ; under tail- 
coverts ferruginous. 
Length about 12 inches, tail 4"3, wing 4-3, tarsus I'7, bill from gape 1*9. 
The above description is taken from a specimen in the British Museum, 
without locality ; but it apparently represents the true P. hypoleucus from 
Arrakan, characterized by a fairly developed ferruginous supercilium and 
neck-patch and by the absence of white streaks on the supercilium or neck. 
P. inglisi, of which I have examined three specimens from Cachar_, is a 
fairly separable species or race, very closely allied to P. hypoleucus, from 
which, however, it may be distinguished by the almost total absence of any 
ferruginous over the eye and on the sides of the neck. 
The Arrakan Scimitar Babbler was discovered in Arrakan, and has not 
been found there again since. Mr. Blyth described it as long ago as 1844^ 
and it is consequently a rare and little-known bird. Judging from Colonel 
Grodwin-Austen^s remarks (/. c), the form which is found in the Naga hills 
appears to be identical with the Arrakan bird, whereas the form found 
in the Garo hills is P. inglisi. 
80. POMATORHINUS TICKELLI. 
TICKELL'S SCIMITAR BABBLER. . 
Pomatorhinus hypoleucus, Bl. J. A. 8. B. xxiv. p. 273. Pomatorhinus tickelli 
{Bl), Tickell, Ibis, 1863, p. 113; Wardlmo Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 142. Ortho- 
rhinus tickelli, Hume, S. F. v. p. 32 ; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 285 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 96 ; Binyham, S. F. ix. p. 181 ; Hume, S. F. ix. p. 253. 
Description. — Male and female. Entire upper plumage olive-brown, 
strongly tinged with ferruginous on the outer webs of the quills and the 
outer edges of the tail-feathers ; inner webs of the quills dark brown ; 
lores, cheeks and ear-coverts rufous-grey ; a patch behind and below the 
ear- coverts deep ferruginous ; a ferruginous supercilium from just over 
the eye, passing over the ear-coverts and merging into the patch on the 
neck ; each feather with a broad whitish streak ; beyond the neck-patch 
the feathers of the side of the neck also broadly centred with white, and 
with a few white streaks over the sides of the upper back ; chin, throat, 
breast and abdomen white ; the feathers on the sides of the breast and 
abdomen margined with black ; sides of the body, vent and thighs rufous 
ashy ; under tail-coverts ferruginous. 
Bill horny, darker at the base of the upper mandible ; iris dark red- 
brown ; legs and feet fleshy white. {Bingham, MS.) 
Length 12 inches, tail 4*5, wing 4*4, tarsus 1*7, bill from gape 1'98. 
