142 CRATEBOPODIDjE. 



p. 27 ; Hume, N. fy E. p. 248; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 409; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 399 ; Damson, S. F. x, p. 376 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 520; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 177 ; Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, 

 p. 100. 



The Spotted Wren-Babbler, Jerd. ; Adavi-liku-jittu,^. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape dull rufous ; whole 

 upper plumage and exposed parts of wings, sides of neck and the 

 tail olive-brown, the latter very narrowly tipped white ; lores 

 and an indistinct superciliuin dull creamy white ; sides of the head 

 paler rufous than the crown, mottled with black round the eye, 

 and the ear-coverts streaked with brown ; chin, throat, and cheeks 

 white ; lower plumage white or pale fulvous white, boldly streaked 

 with black on the breast and sides of the abdomen and suffused 

 with olivaceous on the flanks and thighs ; under tail-coverts brown 

 edged with white. 



Specimens from Coorg, the Wynaad, and Travancore are more 

 richly coloured and have more black on the sides of the head than 

 birds from elsewhere. 



Iris in the adult crimson-lake, in the immature bird cinnamon- 

 brown ; legs, feet, claws, and lower mandible fleshy white ; upper 

 mandible dark brown (Davison). 



Length nearly 7*5 ; tail 2-8 ; wing 2-9 ; tarsus 1*05 ; bill from 

 gape -9. 



Distribution. The peninsula of India as far north as JSTandurbtir 

 in Khandesh on the west and extending to Pareshnath and the 

 Rajmehal hills on the east. 



Habits, fyc. Miss Cockburn, the only person who has found the 

 nest of this bird, states that at Kotagiri it nests in March and April. 

 The nest is a meagre structure of dry leaves and grass with a 

 canopy over the eggs, and placed on the ground under a bush. 



The eggs are greenish white, speckled with lilac and purplish 

 grey ; one egg measured *88 by *65. 



145. Pellorneum subochraceum, The Burmese Spotted Babbler. 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinhoe, A. M. N. H. (4) vii, p. 257 

 (1871) ; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, pp. 385, 452, pi. x; Hume $ Dav. 

 S. F. vi, pp. 278, 514 j Hume, Cat. no. 399 sex ; Oates, B. B. i, 

 p. 66 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 521 ; Salvador^ Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Gen. (2) v, p. 605 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. i, p. 100. 



Pellorneum minor, Hume, apud Oates, S. F. iv, p. 406 ; v, p. 154. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, and nape light chestnut, the 

 feathers of the forehead with black shafts and tips ; lores fulvous 

 white with black shafts ; a broad superciliary streak to the nape 

 creamy white or pale buff ; the feathers immediately over the eye 

 tipped brownish ; ear-coverts and under the eye fulvous surrounded 

 by dusky ; upper plumage, tail, and exposed parts of wings olive- 

 brown, the outer webs of the primaries tinged with ochraceous, 

 the tail narrowly tipped with white ; chin and throat white ; lower 



