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TUEDIDiE. 



Above pale greyish brown ; crown of head and hind neck dark brown, 

 with pale edgings ; back pale greyish brown, the feathers with dark 

 mesial streaks ; rump and upper tail-coverts like the back, the rump 

 unstriped; the upper tail-coverts mesially streaked dark brown; 

 outer webs of primaries concolorous with the back ; inner webs dusky ; 

 tail feathers pale greyish brown, with dark shafts and obsolete transverse 

 barring ; ear-coverts silky, fulvous brown ; under surface pale isabelliae 

 or rufescent white ; chin and throat white ; sides of the breast and 

 flanks with narrow mesial streaks ; irides reddish ; bill horny brown, 

 yellowish near the base; legs pale or yellowish brown. 



Length. — 9 to 10 inches, wing 8 to 3'5, tail 4*5 to 5, bill 0*88 to 1. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, S. E. Persia, and Afghanistan ; also Punjab, 

 N. W. Provinces, Bengal, Kutch, Rajputana, Guzerat and Central 

 India. 



I have compared my series of skins of this species (37 in number) 

 from Beloochistan (Quetta 11), Chaman (S. Afghanistan 6), Gwadur 4, 

 and all parts of Sind 16, and cannot find that there is any special 

 distinctive character which necessitates the making of a second species. 

 C. huitoni, Blyth, and 0. caudata, are virtually one and the same 

 species. I have specimens from Sind (Sehwan) 10"5 inches in length, 

 with a tail of 5 inches and a wing of 3'5. 



Chatarrhea earlei, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiii. 369 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 68; Str.F. vol. {. 180, 420; iii. 124; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, 8fc., 

 Sind, p. 140. — The Steiated Beed Babbler. 



Above pale greyish brown ; head and back with dark brown streaks ; 

 tail like the back, with faint traces of transverse strise; chin, throat 

 and breast fulvescent or reddish brown, with faint mesial streaks; 

 abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts fulvescent white ; bill dusky 

 yellow ; legs dusky brown ; irides bright yellow. 



Length. — 9 '5 to 10, wing 3"5, tail 5'5, bill at front 0'75. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, throughout Bengal and 

 Nepaul, extending along the valley of Assam, and southwards to 

 Burmah. With 0. caudata, this species is numerous everywhere in 

 Sind, to Afghanistan. 



Laticilla, Bly.; Eurycercus, BIy. 



Bill of moderate length, compressed and slender, the culmen slightly 

 curved; wings short, rounded; 5th and 6th quills longest; tail long, 

 graduated. 



Laticilla burnesii, 'Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 374; id. Cat. 786; 

 Hume, Str. F. i. p. 180 ; Murray, Hdbh., Zool., ^c, Sind, p. 143.— The 

 Long-tailed Reed Bied. 



Above olive brown, paler on the head, rufescent on the back and 

 sides of the neck; the feathers including the scapulars mesially streaked 

 with dark brown; rump and upper tail- coverts unstriped ; lores and 

 round the eye white ; ear-coverts greyish white ; tail olive brown, 



