SIMALIN &. ES 
THE GREY-THROATED BABBLER. 
Length, 5°5 ; wing, 2°5 ; tail,3-4; tarsus, 1. 
Bill horny or fleshy-brown ; legs pale fleshy-brown, 
Forehead, upper part of lores and streak over the eyes deep 
reddish-brown, each feather streaked with ashy-grey ; crown and 
occiput deep ferruginous ; cheeks and ear-coverts paler ferruginous ; 
sides of neck yellowish-rusty ; nape, back, scapulars, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, bright rusty-ferruginous, in some lights slightly 
brownish and most rusty on upper tail-coverts, almost entire 
visible portion of closed wing bright ferruginous-chesuut, rest of 
feathers hair-brown ; tail moderately dark-brown, feathers margined 
strongly on outer webs with ferruginous and most broadly so _to- 
wards their bases; chin, throat, and upper breast pale brownish- 
grey or ashy, rest of lower parts dull rusty, browner and lighter 
on lower breast, brighter and more ferruginous on flanks and lower 
tail-coverts. 
The Grey-throated Babbler is a rather doubtful species. 
Within our limits it has only been procured in Sind, where 
doubtless it is a permanent resident. 
Genus, Alcippe, Blyth. 
Bill short, moderately stout and compressed ; culmen slightly 
curved, hooked and notched ; nostrils slightly impended by some 
sete ; rictal bristles moderate ; wings moderate, rounded, fourth 
and fifth quills equal; tail moderate or rather short, very slightly 
rounded ; tarsus stout, moderate ; lateral toes unequal; claws 
tolerably curved. 
Alcippe poiocephala, Jerdon. 
389.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 18; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 399. 
THE NEILGHERRY QUAKER THRUSH. 
Length, 59 ; wing, 2°8; tail, 2°3 ; tarsus, 0°88 ; bill at front, 0°45. 
Bill horny, yellow at gape and edges ; irides greenish-white ; 
legs pale fleshy. 
Head and nape dusky-cinereous ; back and ramp greenish-olive, 
inclining to rufous on the rump, darker and more ferruginous on 
the wings and tail; beneath pale rufescent or fulvous, lightest and 
albescent on the chin and throat. 
The Neilgherry Quaker Thrush is a permanent resident on the 
Sahyadri Range, but has not been recorded from any other por- 
tion of our limits. 
Alcippe atriceps, Jerdon. 
390.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 19; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 399. 
THE BLACK-HEADED WREN BABBLER. 
Length, 5:5 ; expanse, 7 ; wing, 2'3 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0°9 ; bill at 
front, 0-4. 
