PHLLORNEUM. PAD 
nest is more often placed in grass nearer the ground. The eggs, 
generally two only in number, sometimes three, are like these of 
that bird, but are pinker or more terra-cotta in tint. Fifty eggs 
average 20°4x 15:0 mm. 
Habits. Those of the last bird. Robinson and Kloss record it 
from 3,000 feet, Dran, S. Annam. 
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(249) Pellorneum fuscicapillum fuscicapillum. 
Tur Brown-caprrep BAaBpier. 
Drymocataphus fusgheapillus Blyth, J. A. 8. B., xxiii, p. 815 (1849) 
(S.W. Ceylon). 
Pellorneum fuscicapillum, Blant. & Oates, i, p. 143. 
Vernacular names. Datitchia (Ceylon). 
Description. Forehead, crown and nape dark chocolate-brown, 
the shafts fulvous; upper plumage dark olive-brown, the tail 
tipped narrowly with ochraceous, the feathers of the wing-coverts 
and back with pale shafts, and the edges of the primaries tinged 
with rufous; lores, sides of the head and neek and whole lower 
plumage sienna-brown, the sides of the neck and breast with 
obscure striations on some of the feathers, the striations some- 
times obsolete. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris light to deep red; eyelid olivaceous ; 
upper mandible deep brown with a pale margin, lower flesh- 
colour ; legs and feet brownish-fleshy ; claws pale brownish (Legge). 
Measurements, ‘Total length about 160 to 170 mm. ; wing 66 to 
72 mm.; tail about 56 to 61 mm.; tarsus about 26 to 28mm.: 
culnen about 16 mm. 
Distribution. Soutin and South-West Ceylon. 
Nidification. Mr. W. E. Wait describes the nest as similar to 
that of Pellorneum ruficeps, and the eggs also are exactly like 
rather weakly-marked specimens of that bird’s and measure 
about 225x163 mm. In one clutch there were three eggs, in 
the others two only. The breeding season appears to be from 
November to February. 
Habits. Legge describes the habits of this Babbler as much 
like those of the rest of the family. A shy skulker, frequenting 
thick cover and feeding on or near the ground. Its note he 
turns into the syllables ‘ to-meet-you.” 
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(250) Pellorneum fuscicapillum babaulti. 
Wents’s BaBBier. 
Scotocichla fuseicapillum babaulti Wells, Bull. B. O. C., xxxix, p. 69 
(1919) (Lrincomalee). 
Vernacular names. Batitchia (Ceylon). 
Description. Similar to the last but much paler, especially on 
the lower parts which are brownish buff rather than chestnut. 
The top of the head is olive-brown instead of blackish. 
