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Show 7.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. 437 The following is a description of the sexes of T. peninsula :- Adult male. General colour above reddish brown, a trifle more olivaceous towards the lower back and rump; scapulars like the back ; lesser and median coverts like the back, the latter slightly washed with rufous, greater coverts maroon-red ; bastard-wing black, externally golden or maroon, the outer feather olive, greenish externally ; primary-coverts black, forming a large patch ; quills blackish, externally olive-yellow with a golden lustre, rather brighter on the primaries ; inner secondaries inclining to ashy grey towards the ends, which are edged with black ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dusky, externally golden olive ; crown of head deep chestnut as far as the occiput; nape and hind neck like the back, the former slightly tinged with rufous ; lores and feathers over the eye black ; sides of hinder crown dark ashy, forming a patch converging on the nape ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks dark rufous-brown, blackish below the eye and on the chin; throat and fore neck deep chestnut, becoming paler and more rufous-brown on the breast and abdomen ; the sides of body and flanks somewhat duller brown; thighs and under tail-coverts dull rufous-brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries like the sides of the breast; quills below blackish, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0 95, wing 4 1, tail 4*5, tarsus 1"5. Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3*8, tail 4'3, tarsus 1*4. POMATORHINUS WRAYI, sp. n. "No. 24. S 2- Irides brown. This bird has a loud, clear, and rather pleasing song. It frequents the undergrowth and often the ground, going ahout in pairs. Stomach contained insects." This species represents P. tickelli in the Perak Mountains, but it is everywhere much darker in plumage, the head being dusky brown, inclining to dark ashy. The tail is black instead of rufous-brown. The following is a description of the typical pair of birds :- Adult female. General colour above reddish brown, with indistinct dusky cross-bars under certain lights; lower back and rump slightly more olivaceous ; upper tail-coverts again reddish brown ; lesser and median coverts reddish brown like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, externally reddish brown, inclining to chestnut on the quills ; tail-feathers blackish, washed externally with reddish brown, especially towards the base of the feathers, which are indistinctly barred with dusky under certain lights; crown of head more dusky brown than the back, and only slightly washed with rufous ; lores ashy whitish ; behind the eye a bare spot; no distinct eyebrow, but a streak above the ear-coverts, formed by the white longitudinal centres of the feathers, larger and more distinct down the sides of the neck; ear-coverts pale brown, followed by a reddish band down the sides of the neck ; cheeks, throat, breast, and centre of abdomen white ; sides of neck dusky brown, with some longitudinal white stripes intermingled |
