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TIMELllD/E. 



626. Turdinulus murinus (Biyth), Hume, Sir. F. 1880, p. 115 ; 



Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 62 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 593. 

 Myiothera murina, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47 (ex. Mull. MS. in Mus. Lugd. 

 Pnoepyga Roberti, Godw.-Aust. and Wald., Ibis, 1875^.253; Hume, Sir. F. 

 1876, p. 218. Turdinulus Roberti, Hume and Davison, Sir. F. 1878, p. 235 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 93; Gould, B. Asia, part xxxiii. ROBERT'S GROUND- 

 BABBLER. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above brown, mottled with blackish 

 edges to the feathers ; the mantle and upper back varied with whitish shaft 

 streaks ; rump and lower back uniform brown, rather more fulvescent ; wing 

 coverts rather more reddish brown than the back, with a small triangular spot 

 of white at the tips ; tail feathers reddish brown ; lores and base of forehead 

 whitish, the feathers tipped with dusky, producing a somewhat scaly 

 appearance ; a pale fulvous superciliary streak, the feathers slightly mottled 

 with dusky edges ; ear coverts dull brown ; cheeks rufous buff, mottled with 

 blackish tips to the feathers; throat white, thickly mottled with triangular 

 blackish spots in the centre of the feathers ; breast whitish or creamy buff, 

 rather mottled with dusky edges to the feathers ; centre of abdomen whitish ; 

 sides of the body fulvescent brown, the plumes on the sides of the breast with 

 whitish shaft lines ; thighs and under tail coverts more fawn-coloured; axillaries 

 and under wing coverts fulvescent. Bill sepia brown ; legs burnt-umber ; 

 iris vandyke brown. (Sharpe, Cat. B. M.) 



Length. 4 inches; wing 2*05 ; tail I ; tarsus O'8 ; culmen 0*65. 



Hab. Munipur Hills, extending to Mooleyit in Tenasserim, and probably 

 found throughout the mountains of the Malayan peninsula, as it re-appears 

 in Sumatra. (Sharped) 



The above description is by Sharpe, and is from a skin in Colonel Godwin- 

 Austen's collection. Gates describes a specimen from the collection of 

 Captain Wardlaw -Ramsay, but the sex is not mentioned ; Sharpe, however, says 

 that a female in Captain Wardlaw- Ramsay's collection is rather paler in colour, 

 and has the spots on the throat dusky brown instead of black. The species 

 has been procured in the Malayan peninsula and in Sumatra. Colonel Godwin- 

 Austen got specimens in Munipur. According to Mr. Davison, this species 

 is generally seen in pairs, occasionally three or four together hopping about 

 on the ground or about the stems of the undergrowth only in the densest 

 portions of the forest. They are not shy, and do not fly unless very closely 

 pressed. 



Gen. Rimator Blyth. 



Bill longer than the head, slightly compressed, curved, and without 

 notch ; nostrils basal, ovate ; gape to the eye with only a few inconspicu- 

 ous hairs ; legs moderately strong ; tarsus scutellate ; toes long, the outer 

 longer than the inner ; wings rounded, $th, 6th and 7th quills equal and 



