PYCTORHIS. 137 



central portion of Tenasserim. This species has been found also 

 at Perak, but the bird from this place has been separated by 

 Sharpe, unnecessarily in my opinion. 



Habits, $c. There is nothing known about this or the preceding 

 species, except that they have both been procured in bamboo and 

 bush jungle and in evergreen forest. 



Genus PYCTORHIS, Hodgs., 1844. 



This genus is almost peculiar to India, one species only ranging 

 into Siam. It is characterized by a very short deep bill without a 

 notch ; oval and exposed nostrils ; and a long tail much graduated, 

 the outer feather reaching to about the middle of the tail. All the 

 species are birds of very neat plumage, and they have pretty notes, 

 which at the breeding-season almost constitute a song. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill black ; forehead plain rufous. 



a'. Nostrils yellow P. sinensis, p. 137. 



b'. Nostrils black . -, P. nasalis, p. 138. 



b. Bill yellowish brown ; forehead black with ashy 



margins P. altirostris, p. 139. 



139. Pyctorhis sinensis. The Yellow-eyed Babbler. 



Parus sinensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 1012 (1788). 



Timalia hypoleuca, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118. 



Timalia bicolor, Lafr. May. de Zool 1835, text to pi. 39. 



Timalia horstieldii, Jard. # Selby, III. Orn. pi. 119. 



Chrysomrna sinense (Gm.). Bluth. Cat. p. 150; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i. 



p. 230. 

 Pyctorhis sinensis (Gm.). Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 15 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 237 ; 



Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 637 ; Hume, Cat. no. 385 ; Oates, 



B. B. i, p. 46 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 510 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. 



p. 174 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 136; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. 



i, p. 95. 



Gal-chasm or Bulal-chasm, H. in the South ; Bara-podna, H. in the 

 N. W. P. ; Yerra Kali-jitta, Tel. ; MuUala, Siiid. 



Fig. 39. Head of P. sinensis. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage, ear-coverts, and sides of 

 the neck rufescent brown, changing to cinnamon on the tertiaries 

 and the outer webs of the other quills ; lores, a short eyebrow 



