932 e TIMALIID®. 
Nidification. Breeds in forest, making a shallow cup-shaped 
nest of dead leaves, a scrap or two of moss, one or two tiny twigs, 
all carelessly and untidily bound together with cobwebs and lined 
with fine roots and tendrils. The whole structure reminds one 
more of a Cuckoo-Sbrike’s nest rather than that of a Babbler. 
One found by myself was built in a small fork of a straggly bush, 
quite unconcealed and easily reached by hand. It contained four 
eges with a pale yellowish ground-colour well covered with 
freckles, specks and blotches of reddish brown, numerous every- 
where but more so at the larger end. They were much like large, 
dully coloured and brown eggs of Copsychus. They measured 
23:1 x 17:1 mm., and were taken, very hard-set, on the 9th August. 
Habits. This curious Babbler is found during the cold weather 
principally between 1,000 and 2,500 feet, frequenting bamboo-, 
bush- and grass-jungle and, less often, secondary growth. In the 
breeding season it is found nearly up to 4,000 feet, and then 
deserts the lighter form of cover for the densest and dampest 
forests. It is like the birds of the genera Garrulaw and Trockalo- 
pterum in being very gregarious and very noisy, but, unlike 
them, keeps entirely to trees and bamboos and never works 
on the ground for its food. They are intensely curious and 
by no means shy, and will allow close observation without 
resentment. They fly fairly well and are much more active on 
the wing than most of the Timaliude. 
(2833) Gampsorhynchus rufulus torquatus. 
Tue RING-NECKED SHRIKE-BABBLER. 
Gampsorhynchus torquatus Hume, P. A.S. B., 1874, p. 107 (Yqung- 
zalin River); Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 186. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from G. +. rufulus in having the upper 
plumage rufous-brown; the outer webs of the first primaries and 
the tips of all horny-grey; the tail is edged and tipped with 
white instead of buff and the sides of the neck are marked with 
rufous and black. 
Colours of soft parts as in the last bird, but the legs are described 
as ‘“‘ greyish white, slaty white or fleshy white with a blue tinge.” 
Measurements as in White-headed Shrike-Babbler. 
Distribution. he Toungoo Hills and Karenni to Tenas- 
serim, 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits do not seem to differ from those of the White-headed 
-Shrike-Babbler. Davison procured them both in bamboo and 
evergreen forest. 
