The rusty colour is most intense immediately behind the black ear-coverts.
The tarsus is l"-25. This species is closely allied to the JP. vnusicus, Swinhoe,
which has the breast spots dark-brown instead of pale rusty-olive, and the belly
marked with bright rusty-red. The differences between the Formosan and Momien
specimens, both of which are before me, are not greater than those which exist
between it and undoubted specimens of P. erythrogenys, Gould. The tail, as in
the generality of the species of this genus, is faintly barred.
I found this bird solitary, in a hedgerow enclosing a potatoe field near Momien.
1 1 9 . POMATORHINUS ERYTHROGENYS, Vigors.
Pomatorhinus erythrogenys, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1831, p. 178; Gould, Cent. Himal. Birds,
pi. lv, 1882; Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 175, 1842; vol. xii, p. 946, 1848;
G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, vol. i, p. 229, 1846; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc., Bengal, p. 146,
1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 220, 1850; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co.,
p. 285, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 81, 1868; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 277, 1869;
Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 301; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 476; Brooks, op. cit., 1875,
p. 287; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 113.
Pomatorhinus ferrugilatus, Hodgs., As. Res., vol. xix, p. 100, 1886.
a. Momien, 3rd June 1868.
This specimen agrees in every respect with one from Simla, except that the
breast is dashed with dark-brown instead of dusky, of the same intensity as in
P . erythrocnemis, Gould, to which it has a wonderful resemblance in many ways;
but the bright rusty of the knees and vent are not darker than the rusty on the
sides of the abdomen and body generally. This specimen was found in the same
locality as the previous bird (P. ruficollis).
Genus T i m a l i a , Horsfield.
1 2 0 . T im a l i a p i l e a t a , Horsfd.
Timalia pileata, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xiii, 1821, p. 151; Zool. Research., Java; Gray,
Cat. Mamm., &e., Nepal, Hodgs., 1846, p. 85; Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii, 1 8 6 2 , p. 24;
Hume, Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 476 ; op. cit., 1875, p. 118; Armstrong, op. cit., 1876, p. 323;
Oates, op. cit., 1877, p. 152.
Napodespileata, Cabanis, Mus. Heine., th. i, p. 77, 1860.
Timalia jerdoni, Walden, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1872, vol. x, p. 61; Blyth & Walden, Journ.
As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra No., p. 114.
Timalia bengalensis, Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xli, 1872, p. 148; op. cit., vol. xlv,
1876, p. 75,
a. Yaylaymaw, 5th January 1875.
b. ? Bhamd, 4th February 1868.
The top of the head of this species would be more accurately described as rich
chestnut, instead of bright rusty-red. I count as many as fourteen dark-brown bars
on the tail. They are so prominent as to attract attention. The line of union of
the chestnut of the head with the white frontal band is marked by a faint black
line which is present in all the specimens I have examined. The Bham6 bird
has the white frontal band narrower than in Indian ones, and the ear-coverts,
instead of being white, have a faint rufous tinge, which also occurs on the chin;
the abdomen is dark olivaceous ferruginous.
Genus M i x o r n i s , Hodgson.
1 2 1 . ■ M i x o r n i s r u b r i c a p i l l a , Tickell.
Motacilla rubricapilla, Tickell, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. ii, 1833', p. 576.
Iora chloris, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 794, 1842.
Mixornis ruficeps, Hodgs., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1845, p. 28.
Timalia gularis, Gray, Cat. Mamm., &e„ Nepal, Hodgs., p. 85, 1846.
Mixornis chloris, Bonap. Consp. Av., t. i, p. 217,185Q.
Timalia chloris, Bonap., Comptes Rendus, t. xxxviii, p. 59, 1854. -
Mixornis rubricapilla, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 229, 1854; Jerdon,
B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 28, 1863; Walden, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1866, p. 547; Blyth, Ibis, 1867,
p. 8; Beavan, t. c., p. 482; Blanford, Ibis, 1870, p. 467; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As.
Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 108; Blyth, Ibis, 1870, p. 170; Walden, Ibis, 1872,
p. 876; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1878, p. 118; 1875, p. 118; Ball, op. cit., 1874; Hume,
t. c., p. 476; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 245, 1878; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc.,
Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, pp. 75, 409.
Timalia rubricapilla, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 816, 1869.
a. 8 Bhamo, September 1868.
My specimen, when compared with Nepalese examples, is more distinctly
streaked on the throat, the latter being of a more vivid yellow. I t has also a reddish
tinge on the back, which makes it appear very like the Malayan species. From
this, however, it is distinguished by its pale rufous wings like the Himalayan bird.
Genus A l c i p p e , Blyth.
1 2 2 . A l c i p p e p h a y r e i , Blyth. PI. XLVIII.
Alcippe phayrei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xiv, p. 601, 1845; Hume & Oates, Stray
Feathers, 1875, vol. ix, pp. 116, 117.
Malacopteron phayrei, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 817,1869.
Alcippe magni/rostris, Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xlv, extra No., 1875, p. 115; Ibis, 1877,
p. 487; Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. v, 1877, pp. 56, 60.
a. b. 8 Bham6, 20th September 1868.
c. e. S Sawady, 25th to 80th January 1875.
f. S Right bank of Tapeng river, 5th February 1875.
g. ? Nampoung, 19th February 1875
Little or no difference exists in the sexes of this species, but the two specimens
killed in September seem to be rather duller coloured and to have browner bills,
and the black stripe does not exist in the same intensity.