TURDINULUS. 253 
Colours of soft parts. Irides red; bill dark brownish-horn, paler 
beneath ; legs and feet fleshy-brown (Venning). 
Measurements. A larger bird than either of the two other 
races; wing 65 to 74 mm., average 15 specimens 68 mm. 
Distribution. Southern Shan States, Burma and Yunnan. 
Nidification. Nothing recorded but I have in my collection 
egos of a Zurdinulus from the S. Shan States which must be of 
this race. They are exactly like those of 7. 6. striatus already 
described and measure 21:6 x 16°9 mm. 
Habits. Nothing recorded but Rippon obtained it in the Sal- 
ween Valley between 2,800 and 3,000 feet, a lower elevation than 
this species usually hauuts. 
(258) Turdinulus roberti roberti. 
AUSTEN’S WReEN-BABBLER. 
Pnoepyga roberti Godw.-Aust, & Wald., Ibis, 1875, p. 252 (Chaka, 
Manipur), 
Vernacular names. Dao-mojo gashim, Dao-pufli-kashiba(Cachari). 
Description. Above rich brown, more rufescent on upper tail- 
coverts; the feathers of head, back and scapulars edged with 
blackish and with pale greyish centres; lores grey; ear-coyerts 
brown with grey centres ; supercilium and patch under ear-coverts 
rufous, the teathers of the latter with specks at the tips; chin and 
throat white with black specks forming three distinet lines from 
chin to breast; breast rather rutous-brown with broad white 
centres; flanks more rufous with still paler shaft-stripes; centre 
of abdomen almost white with faint rufous edgings; under tail- 
coverts the sane but darker; wing brown, the outer webs of the 
quills suttused with dark rufous, greater and median coverts and 
secondaries with distinct white tips, 
Colours of soft parts. Irides red; upper mandible dark plum- 
beous, tip and lower mandible paler aud tipped almost white; legs 
fleshy-brown, claws paler. 
Measurements. Length about 100 mm.; wing 50 to 55 mm.; 
tail about 18 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm.; culmen 12 to 13 mm. 
Distribution. Cachar, Manipur, Naga Hills and Khasia Hills. 
Nidification. This little Wren-Babbler breeds freely both in the 
N. Cachar and Khasia Hills from 4,000 feet upwards trom the end 
of April to the end of June, making a nest an absolute miniature 
in every way of that of the Short- tailed Babbler. It also places 
it precisely the same sort of position and in the same forests. 
The eggs number three or four, more often the former, and are 
like those of 7. 6. brevicaudatus but smaller, not so glossy a white 
and with more numerous but smaller specks and spots. Forty eggs 
average 19°3 x 14°38 mm. 
Habits. “ Wren-Babb‘er” describes this bird exactly and in all 
