PYCTORHIS. ZOO 
Genus PYCTORHIS Hodgson, 1844. 
This genus is peculiar to India, Burma and Siam and, if one 
includes Moupinia pecilotis Verreaux, to China. 
It is characterized by a very short, deep bill without a notch 
and with oval and exposed nostrils; the tail is long and well 
graduated, the outermost feathers being about half the length of 
the central ones. 
This genus was very well worked out by Harington, with whose 
conclusions I am in complete accord, but yet another geographical 
race named by Ticehurst must be added to the number. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A, Bill black; forehead plain rufous. 
a. Nostrils yellow. 
as Wpper parts paler .. 25.5... 5+: P. sinensis sinensis, p. 235. 
b'. Upper parts darker andricher...... P. s. saturatior, p. 254. 
b. Nostrils black...... HAD nee pe ten ean te P. s. nasalis, p. 255. 
d 
B. Bill yellowish brown ; forehead blackish 
with grey margins. 
ce. Upper plumage reddish brown. [p. 235. 
ce’, Chin, throat and upper breast whitish P. altirostris altirostris, 
d'. Chin, throat and upper breast grey... P. a. grisergularis, p. 236. 
d. Upper plumage earthy-brown, chin and 
throat white ...... «avait erseke yee P. a, scindicus, p. 257. 
Fig. 42.—Head of P. s. sinensis. 
+ (234) Pyctorhis sinensis sinensis. 
THe Inpran YELLOW-EYED BABBLER. 
5 5 ~™ . = Z roc > ce ~ . 
Parus sinensis, Gmel., 8. N., i, p. 1012 (1788) (Sina) (China). 
Pyctorhis sinensis. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 137. 
Vernacular names. Gal-chasm or Bulal-chasm (Hind., South); 
Bara-podna (Hind., N.W.P.); Yerra Kali-vitta (Vel.). 
Description. Whole upper plumage, ear-coverts and sides of 
the neck rufescent brown, changing to cinnamon on the exposed 
parts of the wing-quills; lores, a short eyebrow, the eyelids, chin, 
throat, cheeks and breast pure white; abdomen, vent, flanks 
and under tail-coverts pale fulvous ; tail faintly cross-rayed. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris pale lemon-yellow to brightest golden ; 
