260 PIMALIID A. 
Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim, extending 
down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 
Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded beyond the fact that 
Hume asserts it is arboreal. 
Genus MALACOCINCLA Biittik., 1895. 
The genus Malacocincla differs from all the other genera of this 
subfamily with stout straight bills in having the nostrils oval and 
exposed, with no protecting membrane. The rictal bristles are 
well developed but there are no hairs overhanging the nostrils. 
The tail is shorter than the wing. The name 7wrdinus being 
preoccupied, the above takes its place. 
Fig. 48.—Head of MV. s. abbottz. 
(267) Malacocincla sepiaria abbotti. 
Apport’s BABBLER. 
Malacocincla abbott: Blyth, J. A. 8. B., xiv, p. 601 (1845) (Ramree, 
Arralkan ). 
Turdinus abbotti. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 154. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Whole upper plumage rich olive-brown, the fore- 
head with fulvous streaks, the other feathers with pale shafts ; 
exposed parts of wing-quills like the back; upper tail-coverts and 
tail deep rufous; lores round the eye and a short supercilium 
dark grey; ear—coverts rufous with fulvous shafts ; chin, throat 
and cheeks pale grey; sides of neck, breast and body earthy 
ferruginous, centre of breast and abdomen whitish; under tail- 
coverts bright ferruginous. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris light reddish brown to red; eyelids 
plumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny-brown, tip and lower 
mandible pale horny or bluish-horny ; legs and feet pale fleshy, 
claws pale horny. 
Measurements. Total length about 1S0mm.; wing 74 to 77 mm.; 
tail about 50 to 52 mm.; tarsus about 25 mm.; culmen about 
18 mm. 
Distribution. Nepal, Sikkim, E. Bengal, Assam, Burma to the 
Malay Peninsula, and Siam. 
