110 TIMELIID.E. 



1. Schoenicola platyura. 



Timalia platyura, Jerd. Madr. Joiirn. xiii. p. 170 (1844) ; Graj/, 



Hand-l. B'A. p. 31o, no. 470G (1869). 

 Sclicenicola platyura, Blyth, J. A. S. Bmg. xiii. p. 374 (1844) ; Jerd. 



B. Ind. ii. p. 73 (1863) ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 37; id. 



Str. F. 1879, p. 97; Brooks, Sfr. F. 1881, p. 209; Hume, t. c. 



p. 211 ; Leqfie, Birds of Ceylon, p. 532, note (1880) ; Hume, Str. F. 



1880 pp 234, 260, Butler, Cat. B. S. Bombay Pres. p. 43 (1880); 



Sharps, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 920. 



Adult. General colour above russot-brown, the wing-coverts like 

 the back ; the quills dusky brown, externally russet-brown like 

 the back, the innermost secondaries margined on both webs wdth 

 the same colour ; tail-feathers russet-brown, distinctly banded with 

 dusky brown under certain lights, the outer feathers darker brown 

 and tipped with ashy ; lores whitish ; over the eye a fulvous streak ; 

 ear-coverts russet-brown ; cheeks fulvous, this colour extending onto 

 the sides of the neck ; throat white, washed with fulvous on the 

 lower part and on the fore neck and chest, which are fulvous like 

 the sides of the body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, the 

 latter being washed with ashy at the tips : centre of breast and 

 abdomen whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries buffy whitish ; 

 quills light brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-65, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-85. 



The breeding-plumage is rather darker brown above than that 

 described, which is probably the winter plumage, and is much 

 deeper fulvous on the sides of the body and breast, and especially 

 on the under tail-coverts, which are ashy brown margined with 

 fulvous, the longer ones tipped with whitish. 



A pair collected by Mr. Bourdillon in Travancore measure as 

 follows : — 



cT 



5 



It will be noticed that these measurements are rather smaller 

 than those of the Ceylonese bird described ; and were it not that 

 Mr. Bourdillon has particularly marked them as " breeding," I 

 should have thought that they were young birds. 



Hah. Southern India, from Belgaum in 16° N. lat. to Travancore. 

 Ceylon. 



a. Ad. sk. Ceylon (TJncaifes). Hugh Cuniino-, Esq. 



h c. (S 2 ad. sk. Colathoorpolay Patnas, F. W. Bourdillon, Esq. [C.]. 



Travancore, 4000 feet, 



April 17, 1880. 



» 2. Schoenicola apicalis. 



Svlvia apicali.'?, Licht. MS. in Mns. Berol, unde 



C'atriscus apicalis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 43, note (1850) ; Gur- 



