182 SIMALIN #. 
IX, p. 401; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 133; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 68. 
_ THE STRIATED BusH BABBLER. 
Length, 9 ; wing, 3; tail, 45; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill pale brownish-horny ; irides red-brown ; legs dull-yellow. 
Above pale ashy-brown, with numerous dusky striz#, each 
feather being centred brown; tail pale olive-brown, obsoletely 
barred with dusky; beneath the chin white, the rest of the 
plumage rufescent-ashy, darkest on the flanks. 
The Striated Bush Babbler is very common throughout the 
region; it is a permanent resident, and breeds almost the whole 
year through. I have personally taken eggs in every month 
except December. The nests are generally placed in thorny 
bushes, two or three feet from the ground; they are fairly well 
made, deep, cup-shaped nests, composed of grass stems and roots, 
occasionally lined with finer grass. The eggs, three or four in 
number, are of a moderately elongated oval shape, but spheriform 
varieties are not uncommon. They are of a glossy spotless 
pale-blue color, and average 0°82 inches in length by about 
0°64 in breadth. 
Eggs of Coccystes jacobinus are often found in these nests, 
and are distinguished by their more globular shape. 
Chatarrheea earlii, Blyth. 
439.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 68; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 134, 
THs STRIATED REED BABBLER. 
Length, 9:9 ; expanse, 11; wing, 3°5; tail, 55; tarsus, 1:38; 
bill at front, 0°75. 
Bill pale greenish-yellow, dusky above and at the tip ; irides 
bright-yellow ; legs dirty greenish-horn. 
Above pale ashy-brown, with dark brown streaks on the head 
and back, fading on the upper tail-coverts ; tail concolorous with 
the back, still paler perhaps, and with no trace of striz ; chin, 
throat, and upper part of the breast dull reddish-fulvous, edged 
paler, and with faint dark central lines; the rest of the under 
parts dingy-fulvous or albescent-brown. 
Within our limits, the Striated Reed Babbler only occurs in 
Sind, where it is a permanent resident, breeding from March to 
September. 
They build a neat but rather massive cup-shaped nest, either 
in close growing reeds or small bushes. The eggs, three or four 
in number, closely resemble those of C. cwudata, but are larger, 
averaging 0:96 by 0°78. 
Genus, Chetornis, Grey. 
Bill very short, strong, high, compressed, curved on the cul- 
men, strongly hooked at the tip, and notched ; five remarkably 
