138 
Lieut. Wardlaw Ramsay^s Synopsis 
Hah. Seonee, Mount Aboo^ Central Provinces {Butler) ; 
Candeish^ Kbandala^ Mahabaleshwar {Fairbank). 
14. PoMATORHINUS RUFICOLLIS. 
Pomatorhinus ruficoUis, Hodgson_, As. Res. xix. p. 182 
(1836) ; Jerdon_, B. of Ind. ii. p. 29. 
Pomatorhinus stridulus, Swinhoe^ Ibis, 1861, p. 265. 
Head and whole upper surface olive-brown; nape and sides 
of the neck from directly behind the ear-coverts bright rusty ; 
lores black; ear-coverts dark brown, streaked with white on 
the lower side, a white supercilium from the forehead to the 
nape; throat pure white, breast white, more or less spotted 
and striated with pale olive-brown or earthy brown, with which 
in some the flanks, abdomen, and lower tail-coverts are 
coloured. Spec, descr. ex Nepal: mus. Tweeddale. , 
Bill yellow, culmen dark; irides red brown ; legs yellow¬ 
ish grey; spec, ex Nagas {Godwin-Austen). 
Wing 3’2 inches, bill from gape 1, tarsus 1*2, tail 3'6. 
Hah. Nepal, Himalayas, Assam {Godwin-Austen), S. China 
{Swinhoe), W. China {David). 
Colonel Godwin-Austen draws attention (J. A. S. B. 1876, 
p. 75) to the fact that specimens from the Dafia hills agree 
with those from Darjeeling, but not with Naga-hill and 
Nepal birds. Specimens from the two first-mentioned loca¬ 
lities are larger, and have much stronger legs and feet, and the 
olive-brown of the wings and back has a much redder tinge. 
I agree with MM. David and Oustalet (Ois. de la Chine, 
p. 186) in reducing the title of P. stridulus, Swinhoe, to the 
rank of a synonym of this species. It is absolutely impossible 
in any way to separate the birds collected by Pere David in 
Setchuen from Nepalese specimens. Two specimens, other¬ 
wise agreeing with the above, from Eastern China exhibit a 
rufous pectoral band formed by the nuchal collar being con¬ 
tinued across the breast; but in one of Hodgson^s Nepal spe¬ 
cimens in the British-Museum collection the same thing 
occurs. This species, according to David and Oustalet {1. c.), 
is subject to considerable variations in plumage, even among 
specimens from the same locality, like most of the members 
of the genus. 
