152 CRATEROPODID^. 



an obsolete stripe over the eye grey ; cheeks and ear-coverts deep 

 ashy, the latter with whitish shafts ; entire lower plumage dull 

 white, washed with ashy across the breast and on the flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale bluish, sometimes a little darker and 

 more plumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny brown, almost black 

 in some ; lower mandible bluish white, pale blue, or plumbeous ; 

 gape dull yellow ; iris red, varying from cinnabar to lake, and lake 

 to crimson (Hume Davison). 



Length about 7 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 3'2 ; tarsus '85 ; bill from gape '8. 



Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, extending into 

 the Malayan peninsula aud Cochin China. 



Habits, $c. Arboreal like those of the last species. 



M. cinereum is not unlikely to be found in Tenasserim. It is 

 allied to M. magnum, but the ferruginous feathers of the head are 

 broadly terminated with black, and it is of smaller size. 



Genus ERYTHROCICHLA, Sharpe, 1883. 



This genus resembles the last in general structure, but has a 

 shorter wing, and it appears to be a ground-bird. Only one species 

 is known. 



158. Erythrocichla bicolor. The Ferruginous Babbler. 

 Brachypteryx bicolor, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 1,38. 

 Malacopteron ferruginosum, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 383 (1844) ; 



Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi, p. 273 ; Hume, Cat. no. 396 quat. 

 Trichastoma bicolor (Less.}, Blyth. Cat. p. 147 : Horsf. & M. Cat. i, 



p. 226. 

 Trichostoma ferruginosum (Blyth}, Blyth, Ibis, 18G5, p. 47 ; Gates, 



B. B.\, p. 58. 

 Erythrocicma bicolor (Less.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 551. 



Fig. 43. Head of E. bicolor. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage ferruginous, the crown 

 brighter; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut; lores dull white or 

 pale fulvous; sides of the head like the crown; lower plumage 

 white, suffused with brownish on the breast and less soon the sides 

 of the body. 



Legs and feet fleshy white ; upper mandible dirty white, lower 

 dark brown ; iris pale wood-brown (Hume <Sf Davisori). 



Length about 6'5: tail 2-4; wing 3-1; tarsus M; bill from 

 gape -9. 



