140 TIMELIID^E. 



at the ends of the feathers ; lower back, rump and upper tail coverts rufous; 

 lesser and median wing coverts rufescent brown ; greater coverts and quills 

 more rufescent brown; quills dusky brown on their inner webs; tail reddish 

 brown, externally brighter rufous ; head and nape umber brown, tinged with 

 golden ; ear coverts brown, bordered below by a line of white mottled with 

 black centres ; a patch under the ear coverts, breast and rest of lower plumage 

 orange-chestnut, paler on the centre of the abdomen ; under tail and under 

 wing coverts a little paler. Legs and feet pale dingy green ; lower mandible 

 and edge of the upper one plumbeous ; rest of bill black ; irides crimson 

 lake. 



Length. 6*1 to 6-5 inches; wing 27; tail 2-15 to 2'2 ; tarsus I ; culmeno'8. 



Hab. The Mooleyit mountain in Tenasserim, where it was first discovered 

 by Colonel Tickell. Davison met with it on the lower hills north of Meetan. 

 Gates' men procured specimens at Malewoon south of that division, and Capt. 

 Bingham, according to Gates, states that it occurs sparingly on the Dawna 

 range and other parts of the western water -shed of the Thotmgyeen river. It 

 affects forests and even open spots or bamboo jungle. It goes about in small 

 parties, keeping much to the undergrowth. 



Gen. TurdinuS. Blyth. 



Bill more slender than in Stachyris, about equal to the head, straight, stout, 

 high, much compressed, the cutting edge straight, tip slightly hooked nostrils 

 large, aperture closed by a membrane ; tail somewhat short, wing with the 

 4th quill generally the longest ; tarsus moderate, feet large, middle and hind 

 claw long ; plumage lax ; coronal feathers divergent and slightly elongated. 



610- TurdinuS Abbott! (Blyth), Oates, B. Br. Burmah, I. p. 58 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mies, vii. p. 541. Malacocincla abbotti, Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. xvi., p. 601. Trichastoma abbotti, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 462; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 259; Jerd., B. 2nd. ii. p. 17 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 535 ; 

 Blyth and Wald., B.Eurm.^. 115; Oates, Str. F. 1877, p. 151; Tweed., 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 452, pi. xi. fig. 2 ; Hume and Dav.> Str. F. 1878, p. 259 ; 

 Cripps, Str. F. 1878, p. 277 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, PP- 6o 95. Trichastoma 

 olivaceum, Hume, Sir. F. 1880, p. 108. ABBOTT'S THRUSH-BABBLER. 



Whole upper surface olivaceous brown, the shafts of the feathers very 

 slightly paler especially on the head and mantle ; the rump a little brighter 

 and tinged with ferruginous ; lores, eye streak extending to the ear coverts, and 

 feathers round the eyelids grey or ashy whitish ; sides of face and 

 ear coverts fulvous with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks, throat and upper 

 breast dull white ; foreneck and chest fulvescent brown ; rather ochreous 

 buff on the flanks and thighs ; vent and under tail coverts deep rufous ochre ; 

 under wing coverts and axillaries light fulvescent brown ; tail brown with 



