GYPSOPHII..A, 145 



Whole upper plumage olive brown> with a tinge of rufous, the forehead 

 fulvescent, and the feathers of the head pale shafted ; ear coverts, cheeks and 

 under surface (except the centre of the abdomen, which is white,) clear 

 fulvous ; wings dark brown, the outer edges pale fulvous ; tail fulvous brown, 

 the outer edges pale fulvous; thighs and under tail coverts, also the under 

 wing coverts and axillaries, fulvous. Bill dusky above, pale fleshy beneath j 

 irides reddish brown ; eyelids greenish flesh colour. 



Length. 4-5 to 6 inches; wing 2*25 to 2*4; tail 2 to 2*2; tarsus O'i ; 

 culmen O-6. 



Hab. British Burmah. (The hills of Karennee, Pegu and Tenasserim.) 

 Gates says it occurs plentifully on the eastern spurs of the Pegu hills, in those 

 portions which are covered with evergreen forest. Davison, he says, met with 

 it in the central and southern portions of Tenasserim, and procured specimens 

 from Thoungya Sakan down to the Thoungyeen river. Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay's specimens were got in Karennee, at an elevation of 2,500 feet, and 

 were described as D.fidvus. Bamboo and cane-brakes appear to be the sort 

 of forests it affects. 



Its notes, according to Davison, are not unlike those of Turdinus Abbotti. 

 Captain Bingham found the nest in the Thoungyeen Valley on the 1 5th March, 

 a domed structure placed in a cane bush about one foot from the ground. It 

 was made of dry bamboo leaves and lined with fine roots, and contained three 

 eggs, which were white, dotted with pink. 



617. Drymocataphus rubiginosus ( Waiden), Sharpe, Cat. B. 



JBr. Mus. vii. p. 560. Trichostoma rubiginosa, Waiden, Ann, and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (4) xv. p. 402 (1875); id., in BlytVs B. Burm. p. 115 ; Hume 

 and Davison, Sir. F. 1878, p. 260; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, P- 95 > Oales B. Br. 

 Burm. i p. 65, The RUFOUS GROUND- BABBLER. 



Adult female. Upper plumage olive brown, the head a little duller than 

 the back, and the forehead washed with tawny ; the wings rufescent brown 

 externally ; chin and centre of throat and centre of the breast and abdomen 

 white ; a narrow supercilium, sides of face and cheeks, also the sides of the 

 throat and under surface of the body, ferruginous ; under wing coverts and 

 axillaries like the breast. Bill blackish brown above, paler below and yellowish 

 at gape; legs dull pinkish white; iris light brown. (Sharped) 



Length. 6-3 inches; wing 0*3 ; tail 2*55 ; tarsus 1^35 ; culmen 075. (Mus. 

 R. G. Wardlaw- Ramsay.) 



Hab. British Burmah. The Karennee Hills. 



Gen. GypSOphila,* E. W. Oales. B. Br. Burm. 



General characters not unlike those of Drymocataphus } the first primary 

 shorter than in Erythrocichla, and less than half the longest quills ; nctal 

 bristles weak, not reaching to the nostrils. 



* Without genetic 

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