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of the Genus Pomatorhinus. 
Above dull olive- green ; head above from forehead to nape 
dark slate-colour ; lores and ear-coverts black, a white super- 
cilium from nostrils to nape j throat, breast, and belly pure 
white j flanks, sides of the breast, and a patch on each side 
of the neck behind the ear-coverts ferruginous chestnut, the 
lateral breast-feathers centred white; sides of the abdomen, 
thighs, and lower tail-coverts dusky olive-green. Spec, descr. 
ex Darjeeling : mus. Tweeddale. 
Bill orange-yellow, culmen dark brown; irides hoary [Jerd,)y 
purple {Godwin-Austen) ; legs plumbeous. 
Wing4‘0 in., bill from gape 1’3, tarsus 1*3, tail 4*2 to 4*6* 
In some specimens the head is dull olive-green, only tinged 
with cinereous. 
Hah, N.W. Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Bootan, Dacca 
{Jerdon)^ Assam [Godwin-Austen), 
After a careful examination of a large series of P. schisticeps 
and the so-called P. leucogaster, from the Himalayas, Garo 
hills, Munipur, Dafla hills, Naga hills, and Saddya, ft seems to 
me quite impossible to recognize two species. Blyth states 
(Cat. B. of Burma, 1875, p. 113) that P. leucogaster is smaller 
than P. schisticeps. I have examined three of Hodgson’s 
Nepal type specimens of P. schisticeps in the British Museum; 
and these have the wing respectively 4*07, 3*9, and 3*6. 
Gould, in his description of P. leucogaster, gives the wing as 
3*75, which is actually longer than in one of the specimens of 
typical P. schisticeps. 
The race which inhabits Burmah and Karen-nee is more 
closely allied to P. olivaceus, Blyth, than to P. schisticeps, 
to which Mr. Hume (S. F. iii. p. 121) refers specimens from 
Thyetmyo. This race has been separated by Lord Tweed¬ 
dale under the title of Pomatorhinus nuchalis [vide infra ). 
5. Pomatorhinus OLIVACEUS. 
Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 451 
(1847); Hume, S. F. v. p. 137. 
Difiers from P. schisticeps in having the upper surface 
somewhat brighter, the nape faintly tinged with ferruginous, 
the bill yellow throughout, and by the ferruginous neck-spot 
not being extended down the sides of the breast and flanks, 
