SIMALINZ. 18t 
THE LARGE GREY BABBLER. 
Length, 11; wing, 46; tail, 5°75; tarsus, 1:3; bill at front 
0:9 
Bill horny ; irides light-yellow ; legs dirty-yellow. 
Above of a pale brownish-grey, lighter aud more cinereous 
on the rump ; quills and middle rectrices darker, the latter with 
some faint cross bands, and the lateral feathers whitish ; fore- 
head pale-bluish, the feathers with white shafts; the first three 
quills with the outer webs pale-yellowish ; beneath uniform 
whitish-grey, with a tinge of fulvescent, or rufescent, most 
distinct on the breast and upper part of the abdomen. 
The Large Grey Babbler is a permanent resident throughout 
the district, but is much less common in Sind than elsewhere. 
It breeds nearly the whole year round, as. I have taken eggs 
from January to the end of October. A small babool tree is 
generally selected as the site of the nest, and on a low branch, 
not more than 5 or 10 feet from the ground, it constructs a rather 
loosely woven, but neat cup-shaped, nest. The materials of 
which it is composed are generally dried grass and roots inter- 
mixed with fine twigs. The eggs, generally four in number, are 
indistinguishable from those of Malococercus terricolor. 
Genus, Layardia, Blyth. 
Similar to Malacocercus, but of more decided colors; the bil 
shorter and deeper ; the wings shorter and rounded ; the frontal 
plumes hispid, but of open texture, and monticolus in its 
habits. 
Layardia subrufa, Jerdon. 
437.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 66; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 401. 
THE Rurous BABBLER. 
Length, 9°5 ; wing, 3°7 ; tail, 4:25; tarsus, 13; bill at front, 
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Above darkish olive-brown; forehead pale bluish-ash, the 
frontal feathers somewhat rigid; beneath deep-rufous, paler on 
the chin. 
The Rufous Babbler occurs in various parts of the Deccan; it 
has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits, 
Genus, Chatarrhea, Blyth. 
Bill longer than in Malacocercus, more slender, and very 
gently curved, both in the commissure and culmen; tail long, 
narrow ; lateral toes about equal ; hind-toe very long; claws 
slightly curved. 
Chatarrheea caudata, Dumeril. 
438.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 67; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 472 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
