bright ferruginous colour of the head, the tail also being of the same 
colour, and in the bill being considerably longer and stouter (though 
strictly typical) than in any of the other known species. 
6. Orthotomus cineraceus, Blyth. 
Syn. Orthotomus cineraceus , Blytli, Journ. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 589 
(1845); Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 144. Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 
Orthotomus sepium, Lafres. Mag. de Zook 1836, t. 51 (nec Horsf. 
v. Baffles). 
Hab. Malacca. 
O. cineraceus. — “ Upper parts pure ash-grey, without any tinge of 
green ; forehead 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 4y inches ; of wing, 1 T 8 ^ ; tail, If ; bill to gape, f- ; 
tarse, -f.” — Blyth. 
A specimen in the East India Company’s Museum, from Malacca, 
has the centre of the throat and the whole of the breast and flanks 
lightish ash, paling to silky white on the centre of the belly ; the 
under tail-coverts are also white ; wings brown, the primaries mar- 
gined exteriorly with 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 ; under wing-coverts white. The wing and tarsus 
are both an eighth of an inch longer. Other characters as in the 
description above. 
7. Orthotomus longirostris, Swainson. 
Syn. Orthotomus longirostris, Swains. 2f Cent. p. 343 (1837) ; 
Classif. Birds, ii. p. 62. f. 135. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, i. p. 162. 
Bonap. C. G. Av. p. 282. 
Hah. S.W. Australia (Swains.). Malacca? 
O. longirostris . — “ Cinereous ; sides of the body beneath cinereous, 
the middle white ; head, chin and thighs ferruginous ; throat black ; 
tail brownish, graduated, the latter with dusky black ends, tipped 
with whitish ; bill and legs pale. 
“Length, 4\ inches; wing, 2 T ^; tail, beyond l; base, ly^; bill to 
gape, t B q ; tarsus, yV” — Swains. 
This species differs from O. cineraceus in having a black throat, 
and in the wing being three-tenths of an inch longer, the tarsus also 
being longer by a quarter of an inch. Mr. Swainson lias given S.W. 
Australia as the habitat of this species, which must evidently be an 
error. 
