106 TIMELIID^E. 



Length. 8*8 to IO inches ; wing 3-55 to 6; tail 3'8 to 4*1 ; tarsus !"$$ 

 culmen 1*3. 



Hab.- Himalayas, also the hills of Eastern Bengal and Tenasserim. Com- 

 mon from Simla down to Bhootan. In Tenasserim it has been found in the 

 pine forests of Salween; also at Thatone. Darjeeling, Kumaon, Murree and 

 Khotegurh are other quoted localities. It is always found in pairs, turning 

 up dead leaves on copsewood covered banks, uttering a loud whistle, answer- 

 ing and calling each other. It breeds on the Himalayas from April to June, 

 making a nest on the ground in some thick clump of dry fern or coarse 

 grass, amongst dead leaves ; sometimes the nest is placed in a bush 2 to 3 

 feet from the ground. The nest is domed in shape, but loosely constructed 

 of coarse grass, &c. Eggs white ; in shape long and at times narrow ovals ; 

 in length they vary from 1*05 to ri3 x 0^73 to 0^83, usually 3 in number. 



557. Pomatorhinus Macclellandi, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 32 (descr. 



nulld)\ Godw.-Aust., J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 104; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 302; 

 War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1878, p. 143; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 412; 1879, 

 p. 96; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 431. Pomatorhinus gravivox, 

 David. Ann. Set. Nat. xviii. art. v. p. 2. MACCLELLAND'S SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Upper plumage olive brown ; quills tinged with fulvous on their outer web ; 

 tail light brown, washed with olive brown near the base ; base of forehead 

 rufous , lores white ; ear coverts and cheeks rufous, the latter with white bases 

 to the feathers ; moustachial streak dusky blackish ; throat and under surface 

 of the body white, the sides olive brown ; thighs and under tail coverts rufous ; 

 foreneck and chest white with triangular dusky spots. 



Length. 8 inches; wing 3; tail 3; tarsus 1-35; culmen 1-15. 

 Hab. Assam (Debrughur), Khasia Hills. 



Gen. Xiphoramphus. ^M. 



General characters as in Pomatorhinus, but the bill very slender and much 

 more curved and compressed; tail slightly longer than the wing; tarsu s 

 shorter than the bill. 



558. Xiphoramphus superciliaris, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xii. 



p. 9475 Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. pi. 49; id. B. Ind. ii. p. 33, No. 406; Hume, 

 Str. F. 1879, P- 96; Sharpe, Cat.B.Br.Mus.vii.^.^. Xiphorynchus 

 superciliaris, Biyth, J.A.S. B. ii. p. 175. Pomatorhinus superciliaris, Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 229. The SLENDER-BILLED SCIMITAR-BABBLER. 



Head and sides of the face dark slaty grey, darker on the forehead and 

 sides of the face ; over the eye a superciliary streak composed of white-tipped 

 feathers ; wing coverts ashy brown, the feathers edged narrowly with rufous 



