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of the Genus Poraatorhiiiiis. 
others dark smoky grey ; these latter I take to be be very old 
birds : spee. descr. mus. Tweeddale^ Himalayas. In some ex¬ 
amples the rusty sides of the breast almost meet, and in one 
(from Darjeeling) form a pectoral band a quarter of an inch 
broad; and, further, some specimens have a brown streak 
along the rami of the mandible; but in others this is absent. 
Iris pale yellowish white; bill horny green^ darker along 
ridge of upper mandible ; legs and claws fleshy [Beavan ). 
Wing 3*9 inches, bill from gape 1*4 to 1*6, tarsus 1*4 to 1*5, 
tail 4*5. 
Hab. Himalayas [Jerdon), Tenasserim [Hume). 
This species belongs, as the last, to a group which 
ought perhaps to be generically separated, as has been sug¬ 
gested by other authors. All the species of it (six in number, 
viz. P. hypoleucuSj BL, P. erythrogenys, Vig., P. m^clellandi, 
Jerd., P. erythrocnemiS) Gould, and P. swinhoei, Dav. et 
Oust.), have the bill dark-coloured, rather more curved than 
in typical Pomatorhinus, and very large. 
19. Pomatorhinus m'^clellandi. 
Pomatorhinus m^clellandi, Jerdon, B. of India, ii. p. 32(1863); 
Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 104: Ibis, 1872, p. 302. 
Pomatorhinus gravivox, David, Ann. Sc. Nat. (5) xviii. p. 2 
(1873) ; D. & O. Ois. de la Chine, p. 183, pi. 49. 
Allied to P. erythrogenys, Vigors; but difPering in its much 
smaller size, and the forehead, ear-coverts, and under tail- 
coverts only being rusty brown, the flanks olive-brown, throat, 
middle of the belly, and breast being white, the latter with a 
distinct large triangular brown spot on each feather, and a 
brown moustachial streak along the rami of the mandible. 
Spec, descr, ex Assam : mus. Godwin-Austen. 
In some specimens a few of the white feathers of the 
breast are very faintly tinged with rusty, forming a rudimen¬ 
tary band, which is very highly developed in one specimen 
only of P. erythrogenys above referred to. 
Irides ochre; legs and feet fleshy grey [Godwin-Austen). 
Wing 3’3 inches, bill from gape 1*2, tarsus 1*35, tail 3*8 
(Khasia). 
