timalin^;. 67 



An allied species, L. rufescens, Blyth, is found in Ceylon, some- 

 what darker, the head tinged with ashy, and the whole bill 

 yellow. 



We now come to a group which differs in the more slender 

 body, lengthened and narrow tail, and striated plumage. 



Gen. Chatarrhcea, Blyth. 



Syn. Timalia and Malacocircus (in part). Auct. 



Char. — Bill longer than in Malacocircus, more slender, and 

 very gently curved, both on the commissure and culmen; tail 

 long, narrow ; lateral toes about equal ; hind toe very long ; 

 claws slightly curved. 



438. Chatarrhcea caudata, Dumeril. 



Copyphus, apud Dumeril — Blyth, Cat. 797 — Horsf., Cat. 

 322 — Tim. chatarrhoea, Franklin — -Sykes, Cat. 69— Jerdon, 

 Cat. 94 — M. Huttoni, Blyth — Megalurus isabellinus, Swainson 

 — Dumri, H. in the South — Huni, Tarn. — Heclo and Lailo, Sindh — 

 CHlchil H. in the N. W. P. (Royle) — Veng or Chota-phenga, 

 Hindi— Sor in the N. W. (Theobald) — Chinna sida, Tel. 



The Striated Bush-babbler. 



Descr. — Above pale ashy brown, with numerous dusky strise, 

 each feather being centred brown ; tail pale olive-brown, obsoletely 

 barred with dusky ; beneath, the chin white, the rest of the plu- 

 mage rufescent ashy, darkest on the flanks. 



Bill pale brownish horny ; legs dull yellow ; irides red brown. 

 Length 9 inches ; wing 3 ; tail 4^ ; bill at front § ; tarsus 1. 



This Babbler is the most extensively spread of all the Indian 

 members of this group, being found throughout the whole country 

 from Assam to Sindh, and from the N. W. Provinces and Afghan- 

 istan to Cape Comorin. The only district in which I have not 

 seen it, is Malabar. In the south of India it is usually found 

 away from houses and villages, in the open plains, that are clad with 

 a few low and scattered bushes, and indeed it is to be met with in 

 low jungle throughout India ; but, towards the north, in Central 

 India, and in some of the Gangetic provinces, it frequents cultivated 



