NOTES ON INDIAN TIMELIIDES AND THEIR ALLIES. 6.3o 



e'. Sides of the neck spotted with brown and 



buff ; breast with brownish-buff edges . . T. e, granti, 

 f. Middle of throat buff. 



f. General colour of plumage brown, washed 

 with rufous, especially on the sides of the 

 breast and flanks T. e. davisoni. 



g'. General colour of plumage dark brown, 

 sides of the breast and flanks dark olive- 

 brown T. e. bakeri. 



GeogvapTiical Distribution. 



(CorytJiocichla). — (1) T. b. brevicaudatus (Blyth), Tenasserim ; (2) T. b. 

 venningi, Harington, Shan States and Yunnan ; (3) T. b. leucostictus (Sharpe), 

 Perak, Malay Peninsula ; (4) T. b. striatus Walden, Assam and Munipur, 

 {Turdinulus). — (5) T. r. roberti G. Austen, Khasia, Garo Hills, N. Cachar, 

 Lushai Hills, Manipur, and Naga Hills; (6) T. r, guttaticollis O. -Grant, 

 Mishmi and Miri Hills, Dibrugarh, Assam ; (7) T. epilepidotus epilepidotus, 

 Temm, Java and Sumatra ; (8) T. e. exsul Sharpe, Borneo ; (9) T. e. granti, 

 Richmond, Siam and Malay Peninsula ; (10) T. e, davisoni O. -Grant, 

 Tenasserim; (11) T. e. bakeri Harington, Shan States, Burma. 



TURDINTJLUS BEEVICAXTDATtrS BREVICAUDATUS, Blyth. 



BlytK's Wren-Babbler. 



Turdinus brevicaudatits, Blyth, J. A. S. B., xxiv., p. 272 (1855). 



Corythocichla brevicaudata, Sharpe, Cat., B. M., vii., p. 592 ; Gates, F. of B. 

 I, i., p. 148. 



Description. — " Whole upper plumage and sides of the neck olive-brown ; 

 the feathers everywhere margined with black except on the rump and upper- 

 tail coverts ; tail rufescent ; wings olive brown ; the coverts and all the 

 quills, except the earlier primaries, tipped with a small white spot ; lores, a 

 short supercilium, cheeks and under the eye deep ashy ; ear coverts the 

 same ; but tinged with rufescent ; chin and throat ashy white, streaked 

 with dark brown ; breast and lower plumage ferruginous, paler on the 

 centre of the abdomen, darker on the flanks, vent, and under-tail coverts, 

 which latter are tipped paler." (Gates.) 



" Legs, feet, and claws, pale-brown to pale fleshy brown ; upper mandible 

 very dark brown, lower plumbeous to pale plumbeous ; iris, deep brown, red- 

 brown, cinnamon-red." (Gates.) 



"Length about 5-o"; tail 1-7"; wing 2-4"; tarsus 1"; bill from gape 8". " 



Distribution. — Muleyit Mt. and the hills of Tenasserim. Nothing much 

 seems to be known about its habits, except that it inhabits the rocky 

 portions of the hills, and seldom flies if it can help. Nothing appears to be 

 known about its nidification, which is probably similar to that of 2\ b. striata. 



TURDINULTJS BREVICAUDATUS VENNINGI, * Harington. 



Venning^s Wren-Babbler. 

 Harington.— Bull., B. O. C, xxxiii., p. 44 (1913). 



' TURDINULUS BREVICAUDATUS LEUCOSTICTUS, Sharpe. 



Sharpe, P. Z. S., 887, p. 438. 



Similar to T. b. hrevkaudatus, differs in having no tinge of rufous below, but 

 ashy-grey, also the same above, feathers tinged with grey with darker edges, 

 wing spots white. 



Wing 63 mm. 



Habitat. — Perak, Malay Peninsula. 



" Frequents the undergrowth usually in pairs, and has an unusually loud 

 song for such a small bird" (Sharpe.) 



