176 : SIMALINA. 
Bill horny-brown ; irides pale orange’or buff ; legs plumbeous. 
Head, cheeks, and nape, black; wings, tail and under tail- 
coverts, brownish-olive, darkest on the tail and wings ; beneath 
white, with a tinge of orange-brown on the sides and towards the 
went.” 
The Black-headed Wren Babbler has been obtained in the forest 
west of Belgaum ; it has not been recorded from elsewhere within 
the region. 
Genus, Mixornis, Hodgson. 
Bill rather long, compressed, with a tendency to arch ; tip blunt, 
barely notched ; nostrils ovoid, advanced ; wings moderate, rounded, 
the first four quills graduated, fifth and sixth sub-equal and 
longest ; tail moderate or rather short, laterals very unequal ; hind- 
toe large, nails well curved. 
Mixornis rubicapillus, Z%ckell. 
395.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IT, p. 23. 
THE YELLOW-BREASTED WREN BABBLER. 
Length, 5°75 ; wing, 2'38 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0°8 ; bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill horny ; irides reddish-hazel ; legs pale horny-brown. 
Above dull olive-green, inclining to rufescent or brown ; wings 
and tail rufescent-brown ; part of the forehead, supercilium, ears, 
and sides of the neck, yellowish-green, with some dusky streaks ; 
crown of the head dull ferruginous ; beneath pale yellow, 
fading to whitish on the lower abdomen and olivaceous on the 
flanks and vent ; the throat and upper part of the breast with 
some blackish streaks. 
The Yellow-breasted Wren Babbler has been doubtfully record- 
ed from Central India. 
Genus, Dumetia, Blyth. 
Bill moderate, or rather short, compressed, pointed ; culmen 
slightly curving from the base, and the commissure also slightly 
curved; a few small rictal bristles ; wings short, rounded, fourth, 
fifth, and sixth quills nearly equal ; tail moderate, rounded ; tarsus 
stout ; middle-toe not elongate, lateral toes about equal, hind-toe 
and claw moderately large. 
Dumetia hyperythra, Franklin. 
397.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 26; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 399; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 67. 
THE RUFOUS-BELLIED BABBLER. 
Length, 5:25 ; wing, 2°1 ; tail, 3:2 ; tarsus, 0°8. 
Bill horny ; irides pale yellow-brown ; legs fleshy-yellow. 
Above brownish-olive, the tail obsoletely barred with dusky ; 
forehead and whole body beneath rufous. 
