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In the following species, the tail is more elongated, narrower, and 

 more graduated : — 



5. M. Malcolmi; Timalia Malcolmi, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 88; 

 Garrulus albifrons, Gray, in Hardwicke's Illustrations. Elevated lands 

 of Southern India. Cawnpore (?), apud Hardwicke. 



6. M. Earlei, Nobis. Allied in form to M. subrufus, but the beak 

 more compressed, and plumage very different. Length nearly ten 

 inches, of which the middle tail-feathers measure five, the outer- 

 most two inches less; wing three and a half; bill to gape an inch 

 and one-eighth, and tarse an inch and a quarter. Upper plumage 

 much as in M. chatarrhcea, the frontal feathers however more defined, 

 and less inclining to rufescent, having similar dark central streaks ; 

 transverse striae of the tail-feathers scarcely, if at all, discernible : neck 

 and throat dull-reddish fulvous, the feathers margined paler, and hav- 

 ing faint dark central lines : rest of the under-parts dingy albescent- 

 brown. Beak yellowish, and legs also light yellowish. Common in 

 heavy reed and grass jungle in Bengal, and described from a specimen 

 shot in the vicinity of Calcutta by Willis Earle, Esq. ; to whom the 

 Society is indebted for numerous zoological contributions. Mr. Hodg- 

 son has since sent it from Nepal, and Mr. Barb from Tipperah ; and 

 it has likewise been procured by Mr. Earle in the Rajmahl district. 

 A young one shot near Calcutta is clad in the flimsy nestling plu- 

 mage, having the markings generally less distinct, except upon the fore- 

 head, and the throat and breast of a clearer pale ferruginous. One of 

 the drawings of the late Dr. Buchanan Hamilton appears to repre- 

 sent this species, and I would have adopted his specific name for it, had 

 this only been a little more euphonious. 



7. M. chatarhcea ; Timalia chatarhcea, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 

 118 : Cossyphus caudatus (?J t Dumeril, vide Diet Class: Meg alums 

 isabeliinus, Sw., " Menag." Inhabits bushes and grass-jungle in the 

 peninsula, also, according to Mr. Frith, the extensive reedy tracts 

 covering the churrs in the large rivers of Bengal. Sir A. Burnes obtain- 

 ed it in Scinde. 



8. M. subrufus ; Timalia subrufa, Jerdon, Madr. JL, 1839, p. 259: 

 T. pcecilorhyncha, de la Fresnaye, Rev. Zool. de la Soc. Cuv. 1840, 

 p. 65. Tail broader and softer than in the preceding species. Neil- 

 gherries. 



