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CATALOGUE. 
and sides of the head light ferruginous, palest on the cheeks, and 
there is a slight tinge of the same upon the chin ; crown tinged with 
olive brown : lower parts white, passing to light ashy on the sides of 
the breast ; tail somewhat brownish, with terminal dusky band, and 
whitish extreme tips to its outer feathers ; tibial plumes rust- 
coloured ; the tarsi and toes red brown ; bill dusky above, pale 
beneath. Length about 4|- in., of wing 1^ in., tail If in., bill to 
gape f in., tarse f in." — (Blyth.) 
In our specimen of O. cineraceus, the centre of the throat, and 
the whole of the breast and flanks are lightish ash, paling to silky 
white on the centre of the belly ; the chin and sides of the throat 
with the ear-coverts, being light ferruginous ; under tail-coverts also 
white ; the wing and tarsus are both i in. longer ; wings brown, the 
primaries margined exteriorly vrith pale dusky ferruginous, the 
secondaries with ashy olive ; extreme edge of wing, under spurious 
wing-coverts, and exterior margin of the latter, ferruginous white, 
contrasting with the ash on the breast ; imder wing-coverts white. 
Other characters as in the description above. 
491. OBTHOTOMUS RUFICEPS, Lesson Sp. 
Edela ruficeps, Less., Tr. d'Ornith. p. 309 (1831) (nec. 
Less., Cent. Zool.). 
Orthotomus ruficeps, Moore, P. Z. S. (1854), p. 
Orthotomus sericeus, Temm., Text de JPl. Col. 599 
(1836). 
white ; the sides, the thighs, and the abdomen, of a yellow citron ; back and wings 
of a greenish tint, the quills and tail margined with greenish ; upper mandible 
brown, the lower, as well as the feet, yellowish." — (Temm.) 
ORTHOTOMUS ATEOGVLARIS, Temm. 
Orthotomus atrogularis, Temm., Text de PL Col. 599. G. R. Gray, 
Gen, of Birds, I. p. 162. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 282. Mocyre, 
Z. S. (1854), p. 
The Black-throated Tailor-bird. 
Hab. Malacca, Borneo, TemmincTc. 
" This species is the smallest of the genus. The forehead, top of the head, and 
the occiput, bright brownish-red ; the neck, the back, and the wings, of a grassy- 
green ; the tail of a yellowish-green, marked near the end, and on the inner web, 
with a narrow yellowish band ; the chin, throat, breast, and upper parts of flanks, 
pure black ; the sides of the abdomen yellowish ; middle of the belly and abdomen 
white ; bill and feet brown. No difierence in the sexes. Length 3^ in." — 
(Temm.) 
