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not meet with it anywhere in the Mysore country, which is 
very much drier than the Wynaad. 
I procured a good number of specimens. The following i is a 
resumé of the dimensions and colours of soft parts of those 
measured. Sexes do not differ in size :— 
Length, 9°9 to 10°2; expanse, 11:0 to 11:3; tail, 4-4 to 4:9; 
wing, 3°5 to 3°6; tarsus, 1°35 to 1°43 bill from gape, 0°92 to 
10; ‘weight, 2+1 to 2°75 ozs. 
Upper “mandible from gape to nostril chrome yellow, rest of 
upper mandible blackish brown, shaded along commissure 
with pale yellow ; lower mandible chrome yellow, sometimes 
shaded with pale brown; irides sometimes creamy white, 
sometimes pale yellow. Legs and feet vary greatly ; they are 
dark yellowish fleshy, pale reddish brown, greyish yellow, &c. 
[438.—Chatarrhea caudata, Dum. The striated 
Bush Babbler. , 
I observed three birds of this species, close to the Railway 
Station, at the base of the Coonoor Ghat. I have no doubt 
it occurs everywhere on the lower levels where not too; wet 
and jungly.—A. O. H.] 
442.—Scheenicola platyurus, Jerd. The Broad- tailed 
Reed Bird. 
I failed to procure specimens of this bird during my raeny 
though I saw it on two or three occasions in the dense screw- 
pine swamps in the Wynaad, 
446. —Hypsipetes ganeesa, Sykes. The Southen 
Black Bulbul. 
This species is very numerous on the higher portion of the 
Nilghiris, at about Ootacamund, Coonoor, &e. .. but it gradually 
diminishes in number as it descends, stopping at about ‘4,000 
feet. It is also found on the Bramagherries. It goes about 
in parties usually, though occasionally met with in pairs; it 
is very noisy, keeping up a continual chatter. It feeds on 
fruit, and is rather a wary bird. 
450.—Criniger ictericus, Strickl. The Yellow-oratibll 
Bulbul. 
This bird does not occur on the plateau of the Nilghiriss 
but it is common from about the elevation of about 6, 500. feet 
downwards to the foot of the Ghats.- It also occurs. in the 
forests of Wynaad, on the Peria Ghat for instance, and on the 
Bramagherries. in Coorg. It goes about in pairs and small 
