ZETHOSTOMA. 259 
sides of the head brighter ; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut ; 
lores dull white or pale fulvous; lower plumage white suffused 
with brownish on the breast and less so on the sides of the body. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris pale wood-brown ; upper mandible 
dirty white, lower mandible dark brown; legs and feet fleshy~ 
white, 
Fig. 47.—Head of E. bicolor. 
Measurements. Total length about 160 to 170 mm.; wing 72 
to 82 mm.; tail about 60 to 63 mm.; tarsus about 28 mm. ; 
culmen 18 to 20 mm. 
Distribution. Tenasserim South through the Malay Peninsula 
to Borneo and Sumatra. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. Said by Davison to be entirely a ground bird, only 
flying up into the bushes and trees when disturbed. 
Genus HATHOSTOMA Sharpe, 1902. 
The name Zrichostoma being already occupied, Sharpe’s dvtho- 
stoma is the earliest available for this genus. It differs from the 
last genus in having remarkably long rictal bristles and a very 
short tail. 
(266) Athostoma rostrata. 
Bryrn’s BABBLER. 
Trichostoma rostrata Blyth, J. A.S. B., xi, p. 795 (1842) (Malaya) ; 
Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 153. i 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Whole upper plumage and wings rufescent olive- 
brown, tinged with rufescent on the upper tail-coverts and outer 
webs of tall-feathers; lores whitish mottled with black; ear-coverts 
and round the eye rufescent, the former with whitish shafts ; 
cheeks white with black shafts and tips; entire lower plumage 
white, washed with pale grey across the breast and suffused with 
ashy-brown on the sides of the breast and abdomen. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris pale red-brown; upper mandible 
dark horn-brown, lower pale plumbeous blue; legs and feet rather 
dark pinkish-fleshy ; claws pale horny-brown (Davison). 
Measurements. Total length about 160 to 170 mm.; wing 70 
to 75 mm.; tail about 52 to 54 mm.; tarsus about 26 mm. ; 
culmen about 18 to 20 mm. 
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