258 TIMALIIDE, 
Distribution. Peninsular Purma and Siam and N. Malay Penin- 
sula. 
Nidification. Nothing recorded. 
Habits. According to Davison this Babbler is almost en- 
tirely arboreal, hunting about in trees and bushes in small parties 
or in pairs and never descending to the ground. It is said to be 
a purely forest bird and to be entirely insectivorous in its diet. 
(264) Horizillas magnirostre. 
Tur BROWN-HEADED TRkE-BABBLER. 
On 
Alcippe magnirostre Moore, P. Z.S., 1854, p. 277 (Malacca). 
Malacopterum magnirostre. Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 151. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Forehead, crown, nape and back olive-brown, the 
feathers of the forehead with black shafts; wing-coverts and ex- 
posed parts of guills rufescent olive; upper tail-coverts and tail 
bright chestnut-brown; feathers round the eye white; lores and 
an obsolete stripe over the eye grey; cheeks and ear-coverts deep 
ashy, the latter with paler shafts ; entire lower plumage dull white, 
washed with ashy on breast, flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts. 
Colours of soft parts. [ris cinnabar-red to lake; bill, legs and 
feet as in the last bird but less blue. 
Measurements. Length about 160 to 170 mm.; wing 80 to 
85 mm.; tail about 55 to 57 mm.; tarsus about 21 mm.; culmen 
about 15 to 16 mm. 
Distribution. Extreme South of Tenasserim, extending South 
down the Malay Peninsula and East to Cochin China. 
Nidification. Nothing recorded. Two eggs from the Water- 
stradt collection, said to have been taken on 14. 2.1901 in East 
Malacea, are very pale yellow-creamy white with a few specks of 
light red principally in the centre of the egg-shell. In shape they 
are almost ellipses, with fine, close texture but almost glossless. 
They measure 21°8 x 16:0 and 21°3 x 15:5. 
Habits. As far as js known similar to those of the last bird. 
Genus ERYTHROCICHLA Sharpe, 1883. 
This genus is very close to the last but differs in its shorter 
wing and it is apparently a ground bird. 
(265) Erythrocichla bicolor. 
Tue FerruGinous BABBLER. 
Brachypterya bicolor Less., Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 1388 (Sumatra). 
Erythrocichla bicolor, Blantf, & Oates, i, p. 152. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Whoie upper plumage ferruginous, the crown and 
