180 SIMALINA. 
The White-headed Babbler is common at and near Belgaum, 
where it is a permanent resident, breeding from April to July. 
Malacocercus malabaricus, Jerdon. 
434.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 62; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 400. 
THE JUNGLE BABBLER. 
Length, 9; wing, 4°1; tail, 4:5; tarsus, 1:2; bill at front, 0°75. 
Bill and gape dark yellow ; orbits yellow; irides pale-yellow ; 
legs dirty-yellow, with a fleshy tinge. 
Very like Mf. terricolor, but somewhat darker in color, with 
broader and more distinct pale mesial streaks on the feathers 
of the back, and especially of the breast; the tertiaries are but 
very obscurely striated, but the tail is distinctly so. 
The Jungle Babbler is rather irregular in its breeding habits, 
nests having been taken from April to October; it is generally 
placed in the centre of a thorny bush. The eggs, three or four 
in number, are similar to those of M. terricolor. 
They average 0:97 inches in length by about 0°77 in breadth. 
The occurrence of the Jungle Babbler within our limit is rather 
doubtful. Jerdon implies that it occurs along the Malabar coast, 
and Major Lloyd includes it in his list of Konkan species. 
Malacocercus somervillii, Sykes. 
435.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 63; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 400. 
THE RUFOUS-TAILED BABBLER. 
Length, 95; wing, 425; tail, 4; tarsus, 1:13; bill at 
front, 0°75. 
Bill horny-yellow ; irides pale-yellow ; legs dirty-yellow. 
Above ashy-brown, the feathers of the back barely lighter 
shafted, passing into rufescent on the rump and upper tail- 
coverts; quills dark-brown on both webs; tail rufous-brown, 
ebsoletely banded; beneath, the chin and throat are mixed 
dark-brown and ashy as in griseus ; the upper part of the breast 
pale whity-brown, the feathers dark at their base; the lower 
breast, belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, rufescent. 
The Rufous-tailed Babbler is a common permanent resident 
on the Sahyadri Range and the country adjacent. Mr. Hume 
says it is confined to a belt of country about 60 miles 
north and south of Bombay. In its breeding habits it resembles, 
its congeners. 
Malacocercus malcolmi, Sykes. 
436.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 64; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 472; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 401; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 1338; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 67. 
