TURDINULUS. 



625. CorythOClchla Striata ( Walden), Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 vii. p. 593. Turdinus striatus, Walden, Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. 

 p. 241 (1871); Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. xlvi.pt. 2, p. 44. Turdinus William- 

 soni, Godw.-Austen, J. A. S. B. xlvi. pt. 2, p. 44 ; id., op. cit. xlvi. pt. 2, 

 p. 1 6 (1878). The STRIATED THRUSH-BABBLER. 



Above ashy olive brown, mottled with blackish margins to the feathers and 

 whitish shaft lines ; rump and upper tail coverts uniform : wing coverts like 

 the back, but the dusky margins not so pronounced ; the greater coverts with 

 small triangular spots of rufous buff; quills sepia brown, externally olive 

 brown with distinct spots of rufous buff at the tips, larger on the inner 

 secondaries ; tail sepia brown, the outer webs olive brown, and minutely tipped 

 with rufous buff ; base of forehead, lores and feathers over the eye ashy grey, 

 slightly margined with dark brown margins to the feathers ; ear coverts dull 

 ashy washed with brown ; cheeks and throat whitish, mottled with obscure 

 central markings of dusky brown ; foreneck and chest, as well as the sides 

 of the body, pale fulvous brown, becoming bright tawny on the lower flanks, 

 vent and under tail coverts ; centre of breast whity brown, the feathers with 

 white shaft streaks ; under wing coverts and axillaries light tawny. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 5*5 inches; wing 24; tail 1*4; tarsus I; culmen O'6. (Sharpe.) 



Hab.Wt* of-N.-E. Bengal (Khasia Hills). 



Nothing appears to be on record in regard to the habits, &c., of this species, 

 which not unlikely are the same as those of the preceding species. 



Gen. Turdinulus- Hume. 



Turdinulus, Gen. Nov. 



Like " Turdinus" but with the bill proportionately longer, and much more 

 compressed at the base, and with the tail extremely short. 



Plumage soft and full, very full and lax on rump and flanks. 



Bill large, straight, much compressed throughout its entire length ; culmen 

 almost perfectly straight, curved downwards just at the tip; upper mandible 

 projecting appreciably beyond lower mandible ; a notch in the upper man. 

 dible ; nostrils large, in a triangular basal fossa, nearly covered in by a mem- 

 braneous shelf. 



Wings short, about three times the length of the bill from forehead to point, 

 very much rounded, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th sub-equal and longest, sometimes 

 5th a shade shorter, sometimes 8th a shade shorter or longer ; first four quills 

 graduated ; 1st quill longer than tail from forehead. 



Legs and feet very strong ; mid toe without claw equal to bill at front ; tarsus 

 rather longer ; hind toe and claw rather shorter ; outer toe longer than inner 

 toe; outer toe and claw a little larger than inner toe and claw; the tail so short 

 as to be hidden by the plumes of the rump. 



