168 TIMELIIDjE. 



under surface of body light tawny buff, ashy whitish on the chin and white 

 down the centre of the breast and abdomen ; under wing coverts and axillaries 

 tawny buff. Bill horny yellow at the gape and edges ; legs pale fleshy ; irides 

 greenish white. 



Length** 6 to 6'2 inches; wing 27 ; tail 2-5 ; tarsus 0-85 ; culmen cr6. 



Hab. Hills of Southern India, extending as high as Kattyawar. It is 

 recorded from Mahableshwar and Rajkote. Jerdon says it is found in all 

 the forests of Malabar as high as North Canara, also in Coorg, Wynaad, and 

 on the slopes of the Neilgherries. It goes singly or in small flocks, flying from 

 branch to branch of low trees. Lives on insects. It breeds from January 

 to June throughout the hilly regions of Southern India. The nest is 

 usually placed about five or six feet above the ground between the forks 

 of three twigs of some large bush, and is a deep cup, loosely put together, 

 composed of green moss, dead leaves, moss roots and a little grass 

 or grass stems; there is also a little wool incorporated on the outer surface. 

 The eggs are extremely handsome, and differ much in colour and markings. 

 Hume says those he had sent to him from Kotagherry by Miss Cockburn 

 were moderately broad ovals, very obtuse at the larger end, and somewhat 

 compressed towards the smaller. The ground colour, he says, is a delicate 

 pinkish or pinkish white ; thickly mottled, and speckled with spots and hair 

 lines of deep brownish red, dark brown, and pinkish brown, and often smeared 

 with patches and clouds of faint inky purple. Size 0*83 to o f 86 in length 

 and 0'6 to 0*65 in breadth. 



651. Alcippe Phayrii, Biytk t y.A. S. B. xiv. p. 60 1 ; Hume, Sir. 



F. 1874, p. 476; id. and Oates, Sir. F. 1875, p. 116; Blyth, B. Burnt. 

 p. 115 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 60 ; Anderson, Zool. Exp. Yunnan, p. 635, 

 pi. xlvii. ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. 1878, vol. i. p. 260; id., Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 95; JBingham, Sir. F. 1880, p. 179; Oates,B. Br. Burnt, i. p. 69. 

 Alcippe magnirostris, Wald. in Blytlis B. Burm. i.p. 1 15 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 96. Alcippe fusca, Godw.-Aust., J . A. S. B. xlv. p. 197 ; Hume, Sir. 

 F. 1877, p. 55 ; 1879, p. 95. The BURMESE QUAKER-THRUSH. 



Above, including the wing coverts, external edges of the quills and tail 

 feathers fulvous brown ; the back the same, but with a shade of ashy ; upper 

 tail coverts rich fulvous brown ; inner webs of quills and tail feathers dusky 

 brown ; head and nape ashy brown ; a dark line from above the eye, extend- 

 ing to the sides of the hind neck ; lores and base of cheeks dull white, the feathers 

 tipped with dusky ; ear coverts and cheeks unstriped fulvous brown or with 

 very faint indications of stripes ; inner webs of tail feathers brown with a slight 

 ochraceous tinge ; under surface of the body, the axillaries and under wing 

 coverts deep fulvous; the centre of the breast and abdomen buffy whitish; 

 upper mandible dusky brown, the lower one somewhat paler and turning to 

 yellow at the base ; iris whity brown to pale blue ; eyelids plumbeous. 



