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timaliidae. 

 Babblers. 



f^ Feathers of the back and rump much 



1 -| lengthened 

 (Feathers not so lengthened 



[External aspect of wing markedly parti - 



2 -! coloured 



(External aspect of wing practically uniform . . 



.. f Wing about 4 inches . . 

 I Wing less than 3.25 inches 



Macro7ius p. p/i/os?/.s 



^ f Back and breast ashy 

 I Back and breast brown 



j" Underside pui'e grey . . 



5 -^ Underside dull buffy . . 



( Underside bright j-ellow 



Tail-coverts crimson 

 Tail-coverts fulvous . . 



. . Trochalopterum m. melanostigma 

 T. VI. i^en'msulae 



I'ti'nithins flnriscapis aeralatns, c? 

 P. f. acralntiis, 2 



„ [Feathers of head soft, silky, adpressed 

 ( Feathers of head normal 



g /Bill markedly curved, longer than head 

 (Bill not markedly curved, shorter than head 



Q f Sides of body streaked black and white, 

 I Sides 



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9s of body not thus streaked 



I Breast pale ferrugineus 

 ( Breast white 



J ^ (Larger, wing more than 4.25 inches 

 \ Smaller, wing less than 3 inches 



f Colour bluish black . . 

 1 Colour not bluish black 



(Bases of the contour-feathers dark 

 1 Bases of the contour-feathers white 



( Crown white 

 \ Crown not white 



,^ (Breast and abdomen entirely white 

 1 Breast white, abdomen iiifons 



, „ ( Crown slaty blue 

 I Crown brown 



, „ ( With a black malar stripe 

 1 No black malar stripe 



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I With green or yellow in the plumage 

 [No green or yellow in the plumage 



'Head streaked with black 

 , Head not streaked 



Under side uniform greyish white 

 Under side yellow, streaked with black 



nj f Streaks coarser, tail and wings more rufous 

 [Streaks finer, tail and wings more olive 



(Mantle spotted with white 

 22 -j Mantle streaked with fuscous 



( Mantle neither spotted nor streaked 



no \ Crown streaked, breast white 

 Crown uniform, breast rufous 



Mesia a. arcjeyitaurus S 

 M. a. argentaxirus, 9 



Eiipetes VI. vincrocerais 



.Pomatorhinus liypoleuciis tichellii 



P. ferruginosus albigularis 

 P. fastidiosus oUvaceufi 



Myiophonetis e. eiigenel 

 M. e. crassirostrh 



Garrulax leucolophus diardi 

 G. I. belangeri 



Dryonnstes chinensis 



Oarrtilax pecforalis vieridionalis 

 G. moniliger fuscata 



. Stachi/ridopsi.s cJtri/.iaen chri/.toj^s 



Herpornis znntholeuca interposita 



Mi.rornis rubricapilla pUeata 

 M. r. connectens 



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Kohpia striata 

 TliringnrJiina f<triolatn guttata 



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