132 TIMELIID/E. 



breast greyish white ; lores and a streak over the eye dirty white, the centre of 

 each feather black ; quills brown, their outer webs broadly edged with reddish 

 brown, the inner secondaries almost entirely reddish brown ; tail brown, 

 broadly edged with rufous on their outer webs and narrowly on their inner, all 

 the feathers indistinctly cross-rayed ; under surface of body from the breast 

 to the vent a warm buff; the feathers of the chin with mesial black shaft 

 streaks ; under wing coverts tawny buff washed with rufous. Upper mandible 

 pale horn colour ; lower pinkish flesh colour ; iris hazel brown ; eyelids and 

 orbital skin greenish yellow; legs and feet pinkish brown; claws pinkish 

 horn colour. 



Length. -6- 2 to 6-5 inches ; wing 2-4 to 2-5 ; tarsus o - 9 ; bill from gape 0^55. 



Hab. Burmah and Pegu, ranging through the low Assam country to the 

 Bhootan Dooars, and westwards into Sind. 



Jerdon's Grass Babbler was first discovered at Thayetmyo. It has since 

 been found abundantly in the Rangoon and Shwaygheen districts from the 

 village of Wan, along the Pegu canal and northwards nearly up to Tonghoo. 

 Colonel Godwin-Austen got it in the Eastern Bengal hill tracts, and Mr. 

 Mandelli in the Bhootan Doars. It is common in Sind in grassy situations 

 along the river bank about Sehwan and Sukkur. Its habits are not unlike 

 those of P. sinensis, but it does not seem to affect tamarisk or other jungle 

 bush. Gates says he has not seen it in tree or bush jungle. 



Gen. Dumetia. Biyth. 



Bill moderate, rather compressed, pointed, and with a subterminal notch ; 

 culmen slightly curving from the base ; rictal bristles small and few ; wings 

 short and rounded; 4th, 5th and 6th quills nearly equal; tail moderate; 

 tarsus stout. Frontal feathers stiff, with rigid shafts. 



601. Dumetia albigularis, Biyth, J. A. s. B. xvi. p. 453; id., 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 140 ; Layard. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. 

 p. 272 ; Gould, B. Asia, part 12 ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 26, No. 398 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. ii. p. 247; Butler, Sir. F. 1875, p. 471 ; Fairb., 

 Str. F. 1876, pp. 258, 265 ; Bourdillon, t. c. p. 399 ; Butler, Sir. F. 1878, 

 p. 94; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 505 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 96 ; Vidal, Str. 

 F. 1880, p. 63; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 514. The WHITE- 

 THROATED WREN-BABBLER. 



Above ashy olive brown, slightly more fulvescent on the rump, the feathers 

 of the back, also of the lesser and median wing coverts, with pale shaft lines ; 

 greater coverts and quills light brown, edged with ashy olive brown, a little 

 darker on the outer webs of the primaries ; tail light brown, the feathers in- 

 distinctly cross-rayed under certain lights, shaded with ashy, and tipped with a 



