AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MYSORE. 3875 
of the highest trees, and though acting independently of 
each other, yet still keeping up communication by continually 
calling to and answering one another. The following are the 
dimensions taken in the flesh of an adult male :— 
Length, 6:1; expanse, 8°5; tail, 2°5; wing, 2:78; innit 
0:8; bill. from gape, 0°7; weight, 0°7 oz. 
Tides slaty grey ; legs, feet, and claws greyish fleshy ; bill 
horny brown. 
390.—Alcippe atriceps, Jerd. The Black-headed 
Wren Warbler. 
This species only ascends the hills to about 4,000 feet. All 
about the base of the hills, and through the Wynaad, &c., it is 
a common bird, going about in larger or smaller parties, but, 
unlike potocephala, it seems to prefer bamboo and scrub. But 
it also occurs in evergreen forest. It is particularly numer- 
ous about Manantoddy. 
The following is a resumé of specimens measured in the 
flesh :— 
Length, 5°3 to 5:8; expanse, 7:0 to 7:7; tail, 2°0 to 
2°15; wing, 2°3 to 2°4; tarsus, 0-9 to 0°98; bill from gape, 
0°68 to 0°7 ; weight, 0°6 oz. 
Irides bright yellow; lower mandible and upper mandible 
along commissure, fleshy pink ; rest of upper mandible dull 
black ; the legs, feet, and claws vary much; sometimes they 
are pale plumbeous, sometimes pure fleshy pink, and at other 
times pink, more or less strongly ‘tinged with purple. 
398.—Dumetia albogularis, Bly. The White-throated 
Wren Babbler. 
I found this Babbler very common about Rampore. I also 
met with it in many places in the Wynaad, and I have shot 
it at Neddivuttum at an elevation of 6,500 feet, but it seems 
to be very local in its distribution. Imight march for days with- 
out seeing one, and then pass through a tract in which I met 
with a dozen or more parties in a day’s march. 
The following are the dimensions, &c., of a couple of speci- 
mens :— 
Lenoth, (5:8... 59. expanse, ..(°1,. 24% fall, 2a, )emns 
wing, 2°1, 2°25 tarsus, 0°75, 0°8; bill from gape, 0°6, 0.61; 
weight, 0°5 oz. 
Irides white ; bill, legs, feet, and claws pinkish fleshy ; Opps 
mandible along culmen and claws tinged with brown, 
