176 CEATEEOPODID^. 



Distribution. Sikhim aud Manipur, only at considerable elevations. 

 There are some specimens of this hird in the British Museum, col- 

 lected by Hodgson, but it is not clear whether they were obtained 

 in Nepal or in Sikhim. 



Habits, fyc. As remarked by Jerdon, this species is probably a 

 ground feeder in thick brushwood, and its food consists of insects. 



Genus TURDINULUS, Hume, 1878. 



The proper position of this genus is doubtless near the thick- 

 billed genera such as Drymocataphus, but it is more convenient to 

 place it here. 



In Turdinulus the tail is reduced to a minimum in length. The 

 bill is of the same shape as that of Drymocataplius (fig. 41, p. 146), 

 and the nostrils of both genera are alike. The rictal bristles are 

 moderate. 



186. Turdinulus roberti. Robert's Babbler. 



Myiothera murina, Mull, apud Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47. 



Pnoepyga caudata, Blyth, apud Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, 



pt. ii, p. 101 (1870). 

 Pnoepyga roberti, Godw.-Aust. 8f Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 252; Godio.- 



Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 195; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 218. 

 Turdinulus roberti (G.-A. $ Wald.), Hume, S. F. vi, p. 234 (1878) ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 332 ter; Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mus. vi, p. 173. 

 Turdinulus inurinus (Miill.),apud Hume, S. F. ix, p. 115 ; Gates, B. B. 



i, p. 62 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 593. 



Coloration. Upper plumage with the tail and exposed parts of 

 the wings rufescent olive-brown, the forehead decidedly fulvous, the 

 feathers of the crown, nape, and back edged with black, and those 

 of the back with fulvous shaft-streaks, as also those of the lesser 

 wing-coverts, the median and greater coverts and tertiaries with 

 terminal fulvous-white spots ; lores and a long supercilium to the 

 nape fulvous ; sides of the head fulvous mottled with black, the 

 ear-coverts with paler shafts, and the cheeks narrowly banded with 

 black ; chin and throat pale fulvous, generally quite plain, occasion- 

 ally with a few very minute brown specks ; breast and abdomen 

 fulvous, the edges of the feathers broadly brown ; sides of body 

 and thighs nearly uniform fulvescent brown ; under tail-coverts 

 ferruginous. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale brown and brown to pale fleshy-brown 

 and dusky fleshy ; upper mandible brown to black, lower pale to 

 dark plumbeous ; iris brown, light brown, cinnabar, sienna-brown, 

 deep brown (Hume). 



Length about 4*5; tail *9 ; wing 2*1 ; tarsus "8; bill from gape 

 75. 



Distribution. Asalu and also at Chakha in the Manipur hills ; 

 Muleyit mountain in Tenasserim at 5000 feet and upwards. 



