STACHYRIS. 263 
round the eye black; a large patch of white below the eye; 
bounded by a black moustachial streak ; ear-coverts ashy-brown ; 
a white supercilium to the nape bordered above by black; sides 
of neck and terminal portions of the mantle feathers black with 
long, white, oval drops; remaining upper plumage rich golden- 
brown, the rump, tail and the outer webs of the wing-quills tinged 
with deep rufous; chin and upper throat white ; remainder of 
lower parts ruddy ferruginous, the flanks and under tail-coverts 
tinged with olivaceous, the breast with very narrow white margins 
to the feathers, which, with those of the abdomen, have also 
whitish shafts. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris crimson-lake ; bill black, lower 
mandible and commissure plumbeous; legs and feet pale dingy 
green (Hume § Davison). 
Measurements. Total length about 180 mm.; wing 66 to 69mm.; 
tail about 56 to 58 mm.; tarsus about 25 mm.; culmen about 17 
to 18 mm. 
Distribution. The mountains of Peninsular Burma and Siam. 
Tt has been obtained on Muleyit, on the Thaungyin River, at 
Malewun in the extreme south of ‘T'enasserim and in Kao 
Nawng and Trang in Siam. 
Nidification unknown. 
Habits. According to Davison, Tickell’s Spotted Babbler is found 
in small parties haunting jungle, both forest- and more open 
bamboo-jungle, in the lower hills. For the most part it keeps to 
the undergrowth but he never saw it actually on the ground, 
whereas the Nagas describe the last bird as frequenty hunting for 
food amongst the fallen leaves. 
Genus STACHYRIS Hodgson, 1544. 
This genus is very close indeed to the last, differing principally 
in its smaller, more pointed, bill, which has, however, the culmen 
gently curved throughout in the same manner. 
Key to Species and Subspecies. 
A. Crown black streaked with white. 
a. Throat blackish grey, mottled white 8. nigriceps nigriceps, p. 264. 
b. Throat deep grey or black ........ S.n. coltarti, p. 265. 
co, TWhroatiashiy-ov ey) cee ness S. 2. davisont, p. 265. 
B. Crown golden-yellow streaked with 
black. 
d. A black streak through eye. 
a'. Upper parts olive-yellow ...... S. chrysea chrusea, p. 265. 
b'. Upper parts dark olive-green. 
a’. Under parts bright yellow ..  S. ¢. assimilis, p. 267. 
6’. Under parts dull yellow .... S. 4. chrysops, p. 267. 
e. No black streak through eye ..... . S.e. binghami, p. 266. 
