f520 TIMELIID^. 



and ear-covorfcs black ; cheeks and imder surface of body white, 

 the flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts fulvous-brown ; axillariea 

 light tawny buff, whitish at base ; under wing-coverts light tawny ; 

 quills ashy brown, fulvous along the edge of the inner web ; " bill, 

 gape, and culnien dark brown, the margins of the upper and lower 

 mandible fleshy ; legs and feet fleshy lavender, claws dusky ; iris 

 yellowish white or very pale yellow" (Ler/r/e). Total length 4-7 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-05, tail 1-95, tarsus 0'85. 



The female is smaller than the male, according to Capt. Vincent 

 Legge. 



Captain Legge writes in his ' Birds of Ceylon : — " There is a 

 marked diiference in the tint of the upper surface of this species 

 according to the locality it inhabits. Examples from the south of 

 the island and from the Western Province are rusty brown, while 

 those from the colder climate of the upper hills are decidedly oliva- 

 ceous on the back and wing-coverts ; specimens from the north of 

 Ceylon are, as a rule, intermediate between the two. Although 

 individuals vary inter se in the amount of ferruginous tint present 

 on the back, the up-conntry race will be found, as a whole, to be 

 decidedly less rust-coloured than the low-country birds. The same 

 character is exemplified in the Scimitar-Babbler (PomatorJdnus mela- 

 7iunis)." 



10. Alcippe bourdilloni. 



Alcippe bourdiUoni, Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 485 ; id. Str. F. 1878, 

 vol. ii. p. .36 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 95 ; Bourdillon, Str. F. 1880, 

 p. 300. 



Adult male. General colour above dark fulvous-brown, the head 

 like the back, but dusky on the forehead, which is washed with 

 fulvous-brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater 

 series dusky, edged with light fulvous-brown ; quills dark brown, 

 externally margined with reddish brown ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 washed with deep fulvous-brown on their margins ; sides of crown 

 and ear-coverts, as well as the lores and feathers under the eye, 

 black; cheeks, throat, and chest ashy white; remainder of under 

 surface of body fulvous-brown, paler in the centre of the body and 

 a little deeper on th(^ under tail-coverts; thighs slightly washed 

 with ashy ; axillaries and under wing-coverts fulvous-brown ; quills 

 dusky below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner web ; " biU 

 above black, below pale slaty ; legs and feet duU brown ; iris white" 

 {Bourdillon). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-G, wing 2-3, tail 

 2-1, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Travancore. 



