THE BLACK-NECKED TAILOR-BIRD. 109 
lars and rump ashy ; upper tail-coverts ashy ruofus ; tail chestnut ; wing 
and coverts brown edged with ashy ; cheeks, lower half of the ear-coverts 
and entire under plumage white, tinged with ashy on the sides of the 
body ; thighs ferruginous. 
The female, according to Mr. Hume, has a large black spot on each tail- 
feather. From the birds I have been able to examine I should judge these 
spots to indicate immaturity. In one specimen from Malacca, it is com- 
bined with a head which is mixed chestnut and brown, and the bird is 
undoubtedly young. In another specimen with black spots on the tail, 
the head is, however, as fully rufous as in the adult male. 
Females had the lower mandibles fleshy pink ; upper mandibles horny 
brown. One female had the legs and feet fleshy pink ; the other had the 
feet, claws, and back of tarsi fleshy, front of tarsi pale brown ; in one the 
irides were salmon, in the other deep brown. {Davison.) 
Length 5 inches, tail I'5, wing 1*9, tarsus "8, bill from gape *8. The 
female is of about the same size. 
The Red-headed Tailor-bird has occurred as a rare straggler at Malewoon 
in Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison obtained it. It extends down the 
Malay peninsula, and is found in Sumatra, Borneo, and Palawan. 
Nothing whatever is recorded of its habits. 
109. ORTHOTOMUS ATRIGULARIS. 
THE BLACK-NECKED TAILOR-BIRD. 
Orthotomus atrogularis, Temm. PL Col. livr. 101 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 78 ; 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 249 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, pp. 16, 113 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. 
vi. p. 345 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 101 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 219. Orthotomus flavi- 
viridis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 79 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 121. Ortho- 
tomus nitidus, Hume, S. F. ii. pp. 478, 507, ill. p. 325. 
Description. — Male. The lores and the whole top of the head from the 
nostrils to the nape bright chestnut ; the ear-coverts rufous-white ; chin, 
throat and cheeks dull white, the black bases of the feathers showing 
through a good deal ; underside of neck black, with a few narrow broken 
white bars ; breast, abdomen and vent white ; under tail-coverts bright 
yellow; flanks white, suff*used with yellow; back, scapulars, rump and 
upper tail-coverts green, washed with yellow, and brighter on the latter 
part ; tail brown, edged externally with yellowish green, and all the 
feathers tipped with yellowish white ; under surface of tail yellowish ; 
under wing-coverts pale yellow ; edge of wing bright yellow ; quills brown, 
edged broadly on the outer web with rather bright greenish yellow ; upper 
wing-coverts brown, both webs of each feather broadly edged with greenish 
yellow ; thighs orange-yellow. 
