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CATALOGUE. 
back they become much narrower again, more or less so in different 
specimens, and wholly disappear on the rump ; the ground hue of 
the back and rump is rich fulvous brown, brightening on the latter, 
and tending to rufous on the upper tail-coverts ; lores conspicuously 
pale fulvous, and the throat and foreneck fulvous white, the ear- 
coverts margined with black ; sides of the breast white, handsomely 
bordered with black, and a very slight margin of the same to the 
medial pectoral feathers ; rest of the under-parts white, the flanks 
bordered with fulvous brown, which spreads nearly over the whole 
feather posteriorly ; lower tail-coverts more or less tinged with the 
same; wing-feathers dusky interiorly, the coverts having terminal 
longitudinal white spots ; tail ruddy brown, margined with more 
rufous brown at base ; bill black; legs yellowish. Length 5^ in., of 
wing 2i to 2| in., tail 2 in., bill to forehead (through the feathers) 
fin., to gape ^ in., and tarse f in." 
Genus Pyctorhis, Hod^s.^ (1844), (p. 230). 
Chrysomma, Hodgs. (1845). 
669. PYCT0RHI8 LONGIROSTRIS, Hodgson. 
Pyctorhis lougirostris, (^Hodgs.) Moore, P. Z. S. (1854),^. 
A. B. Nepal (No. 892, Hodgs. Catal.). Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., September, 1853. 
Pyc. longirostris. Forehead, crown, nape, back, rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and tail rufous brown, darkest on the crown, wings, and tail, 
the last distinctly rayed ; chin, throat, base of lower mandible, middle 
of belly, and vent white ; ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and breast 
pale rufescent, brightening on the flanks, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts ; under wing-coverts also rufescent ; bill black, yellowish 
beneath at base ; legs pale horny. Length 8^ in., of wing 2| in., 
tail 3i in., bill to frontal plumes -| in., to gape 1 in., height from chin 
to front 3^ in., tarse 1 in., middle toe and claw l-j^oin., central and 
lateral ditto in., and hind ditto i^in. 
This bird may possibly be the species noticed (but not described) 
by Mr. J. W. Prith in the J. A. S. Beng. XIII. p. 370, as being 
* It may here be mentioned in connection with this genus, that Mr. Hodgson, 
in P. Z. S. (1845), p. 24, refers the species sinensis only to his genus Pyctorhis, and 
not the bird named rufifrom, as quoted by many authors, which is there described 
as an Actinodura, it being synonymic with the species previously described by 
Mr. Gould under the name oi Act. Egertoni. 
