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*' This is a remarkably shy bird, and only met with in the dense 
woods of the G-hauts. Minute insects {Dipterous) found in the 
stomach. The note of the male is hoot, whoot, tvJioot, uttered slowly : 
the female answers liooe'' — (Sykes, P. Z. S. 1845, p. 89.) 
" I have seen this bird, but rarely, in Goomsoor, in bamboo-jungle, 
in thick and tangled wood near Manantoddy, and among underwood 
in the neighbourhood of Kotagherry. It has a very loud cry, which 
has been well expressed by Colonel Sykes. I saw it once in pairs, 
at other times in small families, keeping up a continual loud call, 
and climbing about the branches with great facility. Various small 
insects were found in the stomach." — (Jerd. Madr. Journ. L. S. 
X. p. 256.) 
348. POMATOBHINUS ERYTHBOGENYS, Vigors. 
Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, Vigors, P. Z. S. (1831), 
2>. 173. Gould, Cent, of Birds, t. 55. Bhjth, Journ. 
A. S. Beng. XI. p. 175 ; XII. p. 946 ; Cat. B. Mus. 
A. S. Beng. p. 146. G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. 
p. 229. Hodgs., Cat. Birds of Nep. p. 87. Bonap., 
C. G. Av. p. 220. 
Pomatorhinus ferrugilatus, Hodgs., As. Bes. XIX. p. 180. 
The rusty-cheeked Pomatorhinus, Hodgs. 
Ban Bukea, Masuri, Blyth. 
a. b. Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
c. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
d. Kumaon. From Captain B. Strachey's Collection. 
" Common from 3,500 feet up to 10,000 or 12,000 feet ; always in 
pairs, turning up the dead leaves on copsewood-covered banks ; 
uttering a loud whistle, answering and calling each other. It breeds 
in April, constructing its nest on the ground, of coarse dry grasses 
and leaf-stalks of walnut-trees, and is covered with a dome-shaped 
roof, so nicely blended with the fallen leaves and withered grasses 
among which it is placed, as to be almost undistinguishable from them. 
The eggs are three in number, and pure white ; diameter 1^^ x \^ 
inches, of an ordinary oval shape. "When disturbed, the bird sprung 
along the ground with long bounding hops, so quickly that, from its 
motions and the appearance of the nest, I was led to believe it a 
species of rat. The nest is placed in a slight hollow, probably 
formed by the bird itself."— (Hutton, J. A. S. B. XYII. pt. 2, 
p. 10.) 
