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more irregularly disposed, while on the back they become much narrower again, more 

 or less so in different specimens, and wholly disappear on the rump ; the ground-hue 

 of the back and rump is rich fulvous-brown, brightening on the latter, and tending 

 to rufous on the upper tail-coverts : lores conspicuously pale fulvous, and the 

 throat and foreneck fulvous-white, the ear-coverts margined with black ; sides of 

 the breast white, handsomely bordered with black, and a very slight margin of 

 the same to the medial pectoral feathers ; rest of the under-parts white, the flanks 

 bordered with fulvous-brown, which spreads nearly over the whole feather poste- 

 riorly ; lower tail-coverts more or less tinged with the same ; wing-feathers dusky 

 interiorly, the coverts having terminal longitudinal white spots ; and tail ruddy- 

 brown, margined with more rufous brown at base ; bill black, and legs (in the dry 

 specimen) yellowish-white. 



*T. erythroptera, Nobis. Another small species, with bill very like those of some 

 of the small Soras or Water-crakes. Length five inches and a quarter, of wing two 

 inches and a quarter, and tail two inches, its outermost feathers three-quarters of an inch 

 shorter than the middle ones ; bill to forehead above five-eighths of an inch, and to gape 

 three-quarters of an inch ; tarse a little exceeding three-quarters of an inch. Upper- 

 parts rufous olive-brown, darker on the head, the wings bright rufo-ferruginous ; 

 fore-head, sides of head, throat, fore-neck, and breast, ash-colour, becoming paler 

 towards the belly ; flanks pale fulvous-brown, bill dusky, and legs apparently yel- 

 lowish. 



T. gularis, Horsfield ; figured in the * Zoological Researches in Java' : Prinia 

 pileata, Nobis, Vol. XI, p. 204. The difference in the bill from T. pileata is so re- 

 markable, that I hope I may be pardoned for not formerly looking among the described 

 species of Timalia for this species, which Dr. Horsfield described from a Sumatran 

 specimen, and I have now seen from the Malay peninsula and Tenasserim. The 

 T. pileata, discovered by Dr. Horsfield in Java, was met with by Dr. McClelland in 

 Assam, and the Society's Museum contains a specimen of it from Upper Bengal ; 

 this bird is also included in Major Franklin's Catalogue. 



*T. chloris; lor a chloris, Hodgson, M. S.* : probably Motacilla rubicapilla, 

 Tickell, J. A. S. II. 576, though the description there applies equally to this and the 

 preceding nearly allied species. It differs from T. gularis by having the upper-parts 

 pale olive-green instead of brown, the rusty cap much paler and less spread, and the 

 gular streaks are fewer and narrower. Length about five inches, of wing two inches and 

 three-eighths, and tail two inches, its outermost feather but a quarter of an inch shorter, 

 which is less than in T. gularis ; bill to forehead five-eighths of an inch, and to gape 

 nearly three-quarters of an inch ; tarse five-eighths t>f an inch. The yellow tinge to the 

 breast is, in some specimens, scarcely less deep than T. gularis, whilst in others it is 

 scarcely discernible : bill and feet pale. Lieut. Tickell writes, of his M. rubicapilla, — 

 " Female : five inches, eyes reddish-hazel; bill and legs pale horn. * * * Found in the 

 thick underwood, hollows, ravines, &c. is lively and agile, with a frequent piping note 

 and occasional chatter." List of Birds collected in the Jungles of Borabhiim and 

 Dhulbhum. I notice this species here for the convenience of describing it along 



* Mr. Hodgson has since proposed the subdivisional name Mixornis for this bird, and the 

 preceding species ranks with it. 



