THE BIRDS OF CACHAR. ita 403° 
(47) Pomatorninus HypoLeucus.—The Arrakan Scimitar Babbler. 
One of these birds,a female, with its nest was brought to me at 
Guilang, close on 4,000 feet high, so that this Babbler sometimes, at 
all events, ascends to a good height. | 
(50) GAMSORHYNCHUS RUFULUS. . 
I have now taken the eggs of this Babbler and they shew that Oates 
was right in the place he selected for it; the eggs are very distinctly 
Timeliine in character andare nearer to those of the Pellorneum man- 
delli type than of any other Babbler, except perhaps Drymocataphus 
which they closely resemble in colour. 
In colour they area pale greyish-green, profusely marked with 
reddish-brown all over their surface. 
They were extremely hard set, and in consequence very fragile. 
CORYTHOCICHLA SQUAMATA.—Spec. nov.—The Squamated Babbler. 
Description.—Above rich brown, more rufescent on upper tail coverts, 
the feathers of head, back and scapulars edged with dark brown or 
black, the centres paler and inclined to greyish, and the shafts paler 
still; lores grey ; ear coverts brown with grey centres ; supercileum and 
patch under ear coverts rich rufous, the feathers of the latter with black 
specks on the tzps ; chin and throat pure white, with black specks forming 
three distinct lines from the chin to the breast as in Accipiter virgatus ; 
breast brown with pale centres and suffused with rufous; flanks the 
same with the centres forming more distinct strize ; centre of abdomen 
almost white with faint rufous edges, under tail coverts the same but 
darker. Wing brown, the outer webs of the quills suftused with dark. 
rufous, the greater and median coverts and secondaries with distinet 
white tips. 
Upper mandible dark plumbeovs, tip and lower mandible paler, tip 
of lower mandible almost white ; irides red ; legs pale fleshy-brown, the 
front of the tarsus a little darker, and the claws still paler. 
Length rather less than 4"; wing 2"; tuil 75”; tarsus: 75"; bill at front 
52" and from gape 65", | 
The tail was measured from a single central tail feather, the others 
appeared to have been just moulted. ) 
- The bird was caught on its nest on the Hangmai Peak at an altitude 
of some 6,000 feet. i 
