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with dark shafts and obsolete transverse barring ; ear- coverts silky, fulvous 

 brown; under surface pale isabelline orrufescent white ; chin and throat white; 

 sides of the breast and flanks with narrow mesial streaks ; irides reddish ; bill 

 horny brown, yellowish near the base ; legs pale or yellowish brown. 



Length. 9 to 10 inches ; wing 3 to 3 '5 ; tail 4*5 to 5 ; bill O'8S to I. 



Hob. Sind, Beloochistan, S.-E. Persia ; also Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Bengal, Kutch, Rajputana, Guzerat and Central India, British Burmah and 

 South India. It is spread over the whole of the Indian Peninsula from Cape 

 Comorin to Cashmere and Bengal. 



Its habits are quite those of Earlii, but it is less shy. It lays from March 

 to September, and has two or more broods a year. As a rule they build in 

 low thorny acacias, or milk bush hedges. Eggs, 4 in number, glossy, deli- 

 cate, pure, spotless, somewhat pale blue, and smaller than those of Ear Hi. 



536. Argya edipes (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mm. vii. p. 394. 

 Chatorhaea caudata, Hume and Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 197, pi. 

 ix. Chatorhaea eclipes, Hume, Sir. F. 1877, p. 337 ; id., Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 97. The PUNJAB BUSH-BABBLER. 



Like Argya caudata, but much larger ; upper surface darker and more 

 strongly striated ; tail more narrowly banded ; feathers of breast and sides 

 dark shafted. (Hume.) 



Hal. Punjab, Trans-Indus, and the lower valleys of the surrounding 

 hills. Habits the same as others of the genus. C. Huttoni occurs in 

 Afghanistan and Beloochistan, ranging to Persia. 



537. Argya gulariS (Blyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mies. vii. p. 396. 

 Chatorhaea gularis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1862, p. 19 ; 

 Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 460; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 124; Anderson, Yunnan 

 Exped., p. 639, pi. xlviii ; Hu?ne, Sir. F. viii. p. 97. Crateropus gularis, Bl. 

 B. Burm. p. 117. The WHITE-THROATED BUSH-BABBLER. 



Forehead and a line on each side continued back to the eye grey ; each 

 feather with a blackish shaft stripe ; top of the head, neck, back, and scapulars 

 ruddy brown, the feathers with a dark brown shaft stripe ; rump and upper 

 tail coverts olive brown, the shaft stripes indistinct ; wings and wing coverts 

 olive brown, some of the greater series dark shafted ; ear coverts and sides of 

 the neck ruddy brown ; lores black ; chin, throat, cheeks and upper breast 

 white ; remainder of lower surface ruddy brown ; tail olive brown, with numer- 

 ous transverse bars of darker brown, the outermost feathers washed and tipped 

 externally with sandy buff ; under wing coverts sandy. 



Length. \Q inches; wing 3-2; tail 5-4; tarsus i'4; bill from gape I; 

 culmen o - 8o. 



