132 TURDID^. 



PyctorMs sinensis, Gmel. ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 15, No. 385; 

 Muiray, Hdbk., ZooL, ^'c, Sind, p. 140. Timalia horsfieldii, Jerd. and 

 Selhy, III. Orn. pi. iii. Timalia bicolor, Lafresn, Mag. Zool. pi. 39— 

 The Yellow-eyed Babblee. 



Above reddisb brown, darker on the head, and rafons on the wings ; 

 inner webs of primaries and secondaries dusky; tail dull brown, with 

 very indistinct dusky bands, a stripe from the nostrils through the 

 eyes ; chin, throat, and entire under surface white ; bill black, the base 

 at the nostrils yellow ; legs yellow ; irides yellow brown ; orbits 

 orange. 



Length. — 6'25 to 6-5 inches, wing 2*75, tail 3-5, bill at front 0-5, 



Hab. — India generally, extending to Nepanl and Burmah. Common 

 in Bengal, N. W. Provinces, Punjab, and Sind ; also in Katch, Kat- 

 tiawar, N. Guzerat, Jodhpore and the Deccan. Occurs also in Upper 

 Pegu, Ceylon and Southern India. In Sind it is as in other parts of 

 India a resident, and breeds in July and August. Eggs usually two, 

 and sometimes three in number, prettily marked on a dusky or pinkish 

 ground with streaks, spots and blotches of a brick red and brown 

 colour. Affects chiefly the low tamarisk jungle, in which it also builds 

 its nest. 



Pyctorhis griseigiilaris, Eume, Str. 1^. vol. iv. p. 504; v, pp. 

 116, 250. — The Gbey-theoated Babblee. 



" Forehead, upper part of lores and streak over the eyes deep 

 reddish brown, each feather streaked with ashy grey; crown and occiput 

 deep ferruginous ; cheeks and ear-coverts paler ferruginous ; sides of 

 neck yellowish rusty ; nape, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, bright rusty ferruginous, in some lights slightly brownish and 

 most rusty on upper tail-coverts, almost entire visible portion of closed 

 wing bright ferruginous chestnut, rest of feathers hair brown ; tail 

 (imperfect) moderately dark brown, feathers margined strongly on outer 

 webs with ferruginous and most broadly so towards their bases ; chin, 

 throat and upper breast pale brownish grey or ashy ; rest of lower 

 parts dull rusty, browner and lighter on lower breast, brighter and 

 more feiTuginous on flanks and lower tail-coverts." 



Length. — 5'5 inches, wing 2'5, tail (imperfect) 3'4, bill from nostril 

 straight to point 0'32, tarsus 1, 



Female. — "Bill pale horny or fleshy brown, nearly white towards base 

 of lower mandible ; legs pale fleshy or orange brown, the feet darker." 

 — Hume, Str. F. vol. v. p. 116. 



Hab. — Sukkur, and Sehwan (Sind). 



Gen. Malacocircus. — Sws. 



Bill moderate, rather deep, barely hooked at tip ; commissure slightly 

 curved; nostrils lateral, apert; rictal bristles few; wings short, much 

 rounded; 4th, 5th, and 6th quills nearly equal and longest ; tail long; 

 tarsas scutellate. 



