258 TIMALII1XE. 



Distribution. Peninsular Eurrna and Siam and N. Malay Penin- 

 sula. 



Nidification. Nothing recorded. 



Habits. According to Davisou 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. 

 THE BROWN-HEADED TRKE-BABBLER. 



Alcijype magnirostre Moore, P. Z v S., 1854, p. 277 (Malacca). 

 Malacopterum magnirostre. Blauf. & Gates, i, 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 quills 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 

 sishy, 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. Iris 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 

 Malacca, 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 is 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. 

 THE FERRUGINOUS BABBLER. 



Brachypteryx bicolor Less., Rev. Zool., 1839, p. 138 (Sumatra). 

 Erythrocichla bicolor. Hlanf. & Gates, i, p. 152. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. "Whole upper plumage ferruginous, the crown and 



