274 TIMALIID®. 
is glossy and stout and the shape a broad oval. One hundred eggs 
average 16°6 x 12°6 mm. 
Habits. The birds of this genus are typically plains’ birds, seldom 
ascending the hills to any height. They keep to bushes, lower 
trees and bamboo when hunting for food, never resorting to the 
ground for this purpose and almost equally seldom visiting the 
higher trees. In their attitudes and manners they are more 
thoroughly Timaliine and less Tit-like than birds of the genera 
Stachyris aud Stachyridopsis, for though they keep in good-sized 
flocks they creep and clamber about in a quiet, unobtrusive 
manner instead of fluttering or moving restlessly from one twig to 
another. They are very partial to bamboo-jungle, whether with 
or without undergrowth and are also found in scrub and grass 
and in deserted cultivation patches. Harington describes their 
note as a monotonous * chuk” constantly repeated. 
(284) Mixornis rubricapilla minor. 
GYLDENSTOLPE’S BABBLER. 
Mixornis gularis minor Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 
lvi, 1916, p. 60 (Lat Bua Kao). 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the last bird in having the crown less 
ferrugineus, more brown; the stripes on the throat and breast 
finer and fewer ; the upper parts a less pure olive-green. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in the last. 
Distribution. Siam and Eastern Central Burma. 
Nidification. Eggs obtained by Messrs. W. J. F. Williamson 
and E.G. Herbert near Bangkok in May and June measure about 
16°9x 13:0 mm. The nest seems to be almost invariably placed in 
Pine-apple plants. 
Habits. This race seems to favour the haunts of mankind far 
more than the other races do. It is not only to be found round 
about villages and human habitation but actually enters gardens 
and orchards and breeds there. 
(285) Mixornis rubricapilla pileata. 
THe Matay YELLOW-BREASTED BABBLER, 
Prinia pileata Blyth, J. A. 8. B., xi, 1842, p. 204 (Malay). 
Mixornis guaris. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 168. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description. Differs from the last two in having the stripes on 
the under parts much more developed ; the crown more rufous and 
the upper parts also tinged with rufous and the exposed parts 
of the wing more castaneous. 
Colours of soft parts and Measurements. The bill may be a 
trifle heavier and longer than in the last but the difference is quite 
insignificant. Davison records the iris as brown, otherwise both 
in size and colours of soft parts pileata agrees with the other races. 
