THE IBIS. 
FOURTH SERIES, 
No. VI. APRIL 1878. 
X.— A Synopsis of the Genus Pomatorhinus. By Lieu¬ 
tenant Wardlaw Ramsay^ F.Z.S.^ 67tli 
Regiment. 
(Plates III.-V.) 
The range of the genus Pomatorhinus^ so far as is known^ 
is confined to India^ Ceylon^ Assam and Arakan^ Burmah_, 
China^ Formosa^ Hainan^ Malacca^ Java^ and Borneo. 
Twenty-one species are known to science^ of which sixteen 
inhabit the continent of Asia. Of the remaining five insular 
forms one is found in Java (P. montanus^ Horsf.^ type of the 
genus) ^ two in the island of Formosa (P, erythrocnemis^ Gould, 
and P. nigrostellatus^ Swinhoe), and one in Ceylon (P. mela- 
nurus^ Blyth), aU peculiar to the islands on which they are 
found, whilst a fifth species, which inhabits Borneo (P. bor- 
neensisj Cabanis), is also found in Malacca. No species of 
Pomatorhinus has been recorded from Sumatra; but it is pro¬ 
bable that when the mountainous regions of this island have 
been scientifically explored, one, if not two or more, possibly 
undedescribed species may be revealed to us. 
In the Austro-Papuan region is found a single species, which 
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