156 CRATEEOPODIDJE. 



Length nearly 7 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 2'7 ; tarsus 1 ; bill from gape '9. 



Distribution. The slopes of Muleyit mountain at Meetan; the 

 Thoungyeen river ; Malawun, at the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



Habits, fyc. Davison tells us that this bird is in general an inha- 

 bitant of forests, whether composed of thick jungle or more open 

 bamboo vegetation, and that it apparently never descends to the 

 ground. 



162. Thringorhina oglii. Austens Spotted Babbler. 



Actinura oglei, Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. ii, p. 42 (1877) ; 



Hume, S. F. v, p. 341 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlyii, pt. ii, p. 18, 



pi. xi. 

 Actinodura oglei ( Godw.-Aust^), Hume, Cat. no. 427 quat. ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. yii, p. 467; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 171. 



Coloration. Crown, nape, and hind neck rich golden brown ; back, 

 rump, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts the same but duller, and 

 obsoletely cross-rayed; wings and tail umber-brown, narrowly and 

 closely cross-barred with blackish brown ; forehead white, with 

 black shafts continued back as a broad supercilium to the sides of 

 the neck, where the white band expands and becomes divided into 

 white spots bordered by black ; the forehead and supercilium 

 bordered by black above ; lores and ear-coverts black ; cheeks, 

 chin, and throat white ; breast grey ; remainder of lower plumage 

 dull umber-brown. 



Bill black above, grey below ; iris crimson-lake ; legs and feet 

 umber- brown ( Godwin- Austen). 



Length about 6'5 ; tail 2*5 ; wing 2-8 ; tarsus 1-1 ; bill from 

 gape -95. 



Distribution. Discovered at Manbuni Tila on the Tengapani river 

 near Sadiya. It has not again been obtained by any naturalist. 



Genus ALCIPPE, Blyth, 1844. 



The genus Alcippe contains three Indian species which are very 

 closely allied and somewhat difficult to separate. The colour of 

 the plumage is dull. 



In this genus the wing and tail are about equal in length ; the 

 bill is notched, and the nostrils are overhung by some long hairs 

 springing from the base of the forehead. The tail is but slightly 

 graduated. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Wing 2'3 ; a circle of white feathers round 



eye ; supercilium distinct and extending as 



a hand to upper hack A. wepalensis, p. 156. 



ft. Wing 2-8 ; no circle of white fea,thers round 

 eye. 



