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flanks, and under tail-coverts; tail "brown, washed with ferruginous 

 towards the base of the outer webs. Total length 4*5 inches ; culnien 

 0-43 ; wing 2'3 ; tail 2 ; tarsus O9." 



In younger birds " the crown and sides of the head are much paler, 

 the white superciliary stripes absent, and the white on the chin and 

 throat suffused with pale vinous and spotted with reddish brown. The 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks are bright rust-red" (Grant, I. c.) 



11 Habitat. Naga and Manipur Hills." 



This is a perfectly distinct form inhabiting the hills south of Assam. 

 The differences from P. vinipectus are shown by the sentences in> 

 italics. 



Vol. I, p. 176. The type- specimens or No. 186, Turdinulus roberti, 

 having been acquired, together with the remainder of the Godwin- 

 Austen collection, by the British Museum, were compared by 

 Ogilvie Grant with the bird from Muleyit in Tenasserim, and 

 found to be distinct. The description of T. roberti in the first 

 volume of this work was taken from the Tenasserim species r 

 which proves to be identical with the Bornean T. exsul. Some 

 skins from the Miri Hills, north of Sadiya, Upper Assam, were 

 described by Ogilvie Grant, before he examined the true T. roberti, 

 as a new species T. guttaticollis, but this was subsequently found 

 to be a subspecies of T. roberti, from which it is not I think 

 separable. 

 The following explains the differences : 



Key to the Species (Grant). 



a. Feathers of the middle of the throat white or whitish 



buff, with a triangular black spot at the end of each . T. roberti. 



b. Feathers of the middle of the throat uniform, devoid of 



black streaks or spots T. exsul. 



The corrected synonymy will run thus : 



186. Turdinulus roberti. Robert's Babbler. 



Pnoepyga caudata, apud Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 101,. 



nee ~Blyth. 

 Pnoepyga roberti, Godw.-Aust. fy Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 252 ; Godw.- 



Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. 2, p. 195 ; Hume, S. F. iv, p. 218. 

 Turdinulus guttaticollis, Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1895, p. 432; 1896., 



p. 69. 

 Turdinulus roberti, Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1896, pp. 55, 59. 



Distribution. Naga and Manipur Hills ; alsoNoa Dehing and Manbiim, 

 near Sadiya. T. guttaticollis is from the Miri and Mishmi Hills, north 

 of Sadiya. 



186 a. Turdinulus exsul. Davison's Babbler. 



Turdinulus roberti, apud Hume Sf Dav, S. F. vi, p. 234 ; Hume, Cat* 

 no. 332 ter ; Sharpe, Notes Leyd. Mus. vi, p. 173 ; Gates, ante, vol. i r 

 p. 176. 

 Turdinulus murinus, apud Hume, S. F. ix, p. 115 ; Gates, B. B. ii, 



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

 Turdinulus exsul, Sharpe ; Biittikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. xvii, p. 76 



(1895) ; Ogilvie Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 60. 



Distribution. Muleyit, Tenasserim ; Klang, Selangore ; Kina Balu, 

 Mount Dulit, and Mount Penrisen, Borneo. The specimen from Klang' 

 differs slightly from the others, and may prove separable. 



