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height. Although nesting near the ground, it seems to have lost its Timeliine 

 habits, and appears to feed entirely in trees. It has a very monotonous call 

 of " Chuk, Chuk, Chuk," which it seems to utter throughout the day. The 

 breeding season commences in March, the nest, an untidy dome shaped 

 affair of bamboo leaves and grass, is either placed in the bamboo clump, or 

 small bush near the ground. 2, 3, and 4 eggs are incubated, these are white 

 spotted with rusty red chiefly at the larger end. 



Note. — Stachyridopsis sulphurea, Rippon, Bull., B. O. C, xi., p. 11 (1900). 

 " The specimen so named by Col. Rippon is not a Stachyridopsis, but an 

 example of Mixornis gularis rubricapillus, Tickell. The name therefore 

 becomes a synonym of that species." (Hariugton.) 



MixoKNis gularis' gularis, Raffles. 



MotaciUa gularis, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii., p. 312 (1820). 



Mixornis gularis, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 576 ; Gates, F. B. I., i., p. 168. 



Description. — Similar to M. rubricapillus, difi"ers in having a more brownish 

 tinge on the back ; chin, throat and breast boldly striped with black ; crown 

 dai'k chestnut ; wings also a dark chestnut. 



Iris, pale red-brown ; lower mandible and orbital skin, pale blue ; rest of 

 bill bluish-brown ; legs and feet greenish-brown. 



Wing 58-62 mm. ; bill 14-16 mm.; tail 57 mm.; tarsus 20 mm. 



Distribution. — S.Tenasseinm to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



Cyanoderma, Salvador! (1874). 



Very similar in characteristics to Stachyrhis, differs from that genera in 

 having the skin round the eye naked, and of a bright colour, only one species 

 just comes within Indian limits. 



Distribution. — C. erythropterum, Blyth, S. Tenasserim to Sumatra and 

 Borneo ; C. fulvirenter, Richmond, Banjak Island, N. W. Sumatra; C. bicolor, 

 Blyth, Borneo, Labuan. 



Ctanodebma erythropterum, Blyth. 



The Red-ioinged Babbler. 



Timalia erythropterum, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xi., p. 794 (1842). 

 Mixornis erythropterum, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 580. 

 Cyanoderma erythropterum. Gates, F. B. I., i., p. 166. 

 Description. — As in Gates, F. B. I. 



Distribution. — As above. I can find nothing recorded as to the nesting 

 habits of this genus. 



TuRDiNULUS Group. 



In this, I have placed Corythocincla, Turdimdus and Rimator, all of which 

 are remarkable for their extremely short tails. 



They all have the following characteristics : a short rounded wing, and an 

 extremely short tail ; and upper plumage more or less squamated. 



Key. 



A. Bill long and curved . . . . Rimator. 



B. Bill moderate and straight . . Turdinulus. 



TuRDiNULUs, Hume (1878). 



. Turdinulus, Hume, (1878); Gates, F. B. I., i.,' p. 176. 



Corythocichla, Sharpe, (1883); Gates, F. B, I., i., p. 148 ; O.-Grant, Ibis, 

 1897, p. 58 ; Hartert, Nov., ZooL, ix., p. 564 ; Buttikofer, Notes, Leyden 

 Museum, xvii., p. 74. 



" Small ; bill slender, compressed on the anterior half, nostrils covered 

 by a membrane, nasal aperture split-shaped, and placed along the 



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