166 OEATEEOPODID^B. 



Length about 5; tail 2-2; wing 2-1; tarsus -7; bill from 

 gape -65. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree to Nepal. This species 

 does not appear to occur in Sikhim. It ranges up to 7000 feet. 



Habits, c. Breeds in June and probably in other months, making 

 a cup-shaped nest of dry reed-leaves lined with grass in a bush. 

 The eggs are white speckled with reddish, and measure -66 by -51. 



Genus CYANODERMA, Salvadori, 1874. 



This genus differs from the two preceding in having the 

 culmen straight on its basal half and slightly curved on its terminal 

 half. Also in having the orbits naked and of a bright colour in 

 life. 



Sharpe (Notes from the Leyden Museum, vi, p. 176) has been 

 persuaded into uniting his genus Stachyrhidopsis with Gyanoderma ; 

 but I am of opinion that the two genera are quite distinct, and the 

 characters pointed out above should be sufficient to differentiate 

 the two. 



175. Cyanoderma erythropterum. The Red-iuinged Babbler. 



Timalia erythroptera, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 794 (1842) ; id. Cat. 



p. 150 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i. pp. 229, 420; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 322. 

 Cyanoderma erythropterum (Blyth), Salvad. Ucc. Bom. p. 213; 



Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 308 : Hume 8? Dav. S. F. vi, p. 269 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 396 bis ; id. S. F. ix, p. 129 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 



2nd ed. i, p. 115. 

 Mixornis erythroptera (Blyth}, Oates, B. B. i, p. 51 ; Shame, Cat. 



B. M. vii, p. 580. 



Coloration. Forehead, supercilium, ear-coverts, sides of the head 

 and neck, chin, throat, and breast clear plumbeous ; abdomen, 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts fulvous brown ; upper plumage 

 rufescent brown ; wing-coverts, wings, and tail bright ferruginous. 



Bill dark plumbeous blue, upper mandible darkest, in some 

 brownish ; visible skin of cheeks and orbits from pure light to dull 

 dirty smalt-blue ; iris madder-red to deep brown ; legs, feet, and 

 claws very pale, almost white, tinged with greenish or yellowish 

 green (Hume fy Davison}. 



Length about 5-5 ; tail 2 ; wing 2-3 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape 

 7. 



Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, ranging down 

 the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo. 



Habits, fyc. Entirely arboreal. Davison found the nest in April 

 a round ball of dry reed-leaves in a bush ; it did not contain eggs. 



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Genus MIXORNIS, Hodgs., 1842. 



The genus Mixornis differs from all the other genera of slender- 

 billed Timeliince in having the nostrils oval, exposed and not covered 

 by a scale or membrane as in the others. 



