378 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Specimens with the gonads enlarged were taken at Chiang Mai, May 

 3. and on Doi Ang Ka, September 8. An example from Muang Fang, 

 July 15, is in juvenal dress. 



An adult female of July 6 had the irides golden-orange ; the eye ring 

 red-orange ; the orbital region bright yellow ; the bill black, with the 

 narial region yellow; the rictus and skin of the chin yellow; the in- 

 terior of the mouth black; the feet and toes bright yellow; the claws 

 horny flesh. The interior of the mouth is said to be yellow in winter. 



The yellow-eyed babbler has the entire upperparts rufous-brown ; 

 the exposed portions of the remiges cinnamon ; the lores and a short, 

 indistinct supercilium white; the underparts white, suffused with 

 buffy on the lower breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts and 

 with cinnamon-buff on the thighs. 



PELLORNEUM EUFICEPS VIVIDUM La Touche 



Indo-Chinese Streaked-breasted Babbler 



Pellorneum nipalense vividum La Touche, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 42, 1921, p. 17 

 (Hokow, southeastern Yunnan). 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 

 1913, p. 20 (["Vang Nun," Den Chai]) ; 1916, p. 56 (Pha Kbo, Khun Tan, 

 Pang Hua Phong) ; Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 165 (listed). 



Pellorneum ruficcps subochraceum [partim], Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 481 

 ("Throughout the whole country" [partim]). — de Schatjensee, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1934, p. 189 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep). 



Pellorneum ruficeps subochraceum, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1029, p. 532 (Chiang Saen). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 Suppl., 1931, p. 137 (Chiang Mai, Doi Suthep) ; 1936, p. 106 (Chiang Mai, 

 Doi Suthep). 



Pellorneum ruficeps vividum, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 330 (Khuu 

 Tan, Ban Nana Khian). 



The spotted babbler is fairly common in every part of our area, 

 chiefly at low elevations but, where the vegetation is suitable, occur- 

 ring also on the mountains to about 5,000 feet. On the plains, it is 

 a characteristic inhabitant of the bamboo, whether in pure stands 

 or mixed with deciduous trees; on the hills, it dwells both in bamboo 

 and in the high grass of the open forest of oak and pine. I have never 

 found it in true evergreen jungle at any locality. 



This bird, singly or in pairs, keeps to the dense lower portions of 

 the bamboo clumps or to the deep shade of the ground beneath them, 

 only rarely venturing onto an open trail and thence, at the first alarm, 

 scuttling again into the nearest cover. During the hot months of 

 spring its sweet song, delivered from some concealed perch in the heart 

 of the canes, is repeated again and again, asking : Where have' you" 

 been? In life, the pure white feathers of the throat are always par- 

 tially erected, much like those of Criniger. 



