150 TIMELIID/E. 



Hab. From Southern Tenasserim down the Malayan peninsula to Sumatra. 

 Its habits are not unlike those of its allied congeners, and like them affects 

 tree and bush jungle, and is seldom seen on the ground. Mr. Davison found 

 a nest in April, which is said to be a ball about 6 inches in diameter, composed 

 of dry reed leaves with an aperture on one side. The nest was placed about 

 3 feet from the ground. 



Gen. CorythOCichla. Sharps. 



This genus is characterized by Sharpe (Cat B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 507) as 

 differing from the preceding in having the tail very short, far exceeded by 

 the outstretched feet, and not hidden by the plumes of the rump, the culmen 

 shorter than the tarsus, the bill broader than deep at the nostrils, and the rictal 

 bristles well developed. 



624. Corythocichla brevicaudata (Biyth), Sharpe, Cat. B. 



Br. Mus. vii. p. 592. Turdinus brevicaudatus, Blyth, J . A. S. B. xxiv. 

 p. 272; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 345 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, p. 262 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 462 ; 1879, p. 95 ; Bingham, Str. F. 1880, p. 179; 

 Gales, B. Br. Burn. i. p. 60. Macronus brevicaudatus, Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 319. The SHORT-TAILED THRUSH-BABBLER. 



Head, upper back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts olive grey with 

 the shafts lighter, and each feather margined with dark brown ; lores, superci- 

 lium, sides of the face, ear coverts and cheeks ashy grey, with indistinct whitish 

 shaft streaks ; lesser and median wing coverts with narrow pale shaft lines, 

 the greater series darker brown with tiny white spots at the tip ; primary 

 coverts and quills dark brown, externally washed with olivaceous ; the inner 

 secondaries tipped with a white spot ; tail dark brown, the outer webs oliva- 

 ceous brown ; chin and throat streaked with white and dusky ; foreneck, breast 

 and under surface of the body light tawny or ferruginous buff: the centre of 

 the breast and abdomen creamy buff, and the sides and flanks browner ; sides of 

 the foreneck pale ashy, streaked mesially with whitish ; thighs dusky brown, 

 washed with tawny ; under tail coverts tawny with buffish tips ; under wing 

 coverts and axillaries dull tawny with whitish shaft lines on a dusky centre ; 

 eggs, feet and claws pale brown to pale fleshy brown ; upper mandible very 

 dark brown ; the lower one plumbeous ; irides variable, deep brown, red brown 

 or cinnamon red. 



Length. 4*5 to 5*5 inches; wing 2-4 ; tail 1-5 to rg"; tarsus 0-9; culmen 

 0-6. 



Hab. Tenasserim on the higher slopes of the Mooleyit. Mr. Davison says 

 he only met with it here at elevations from and above 5,000 feet among the 

 boulders hopping about on and amongst the rocks, and turning over leaves 

 in search of insects. He found them in small parties, also in pairs and 

 occasionally singly. 



