THE WHITE-THROATED BUS PI-BABBLER. 
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and following one another from clump to clump with much noise. Their 
note is a sort of mew^ rather loud and extremely monotonous. I found 
the nest in May^ in the plains near the Pegu canal. The structure is large 
and cup-shapedj constructed of coarse grasses neatly woven together. It is 
usually placed in a thick clump of elephant-grass about a foot from the 
ground and resting on the old and decayed grasses which in May are 
found at the roots o£ the new growth. The eggs are blue and usually 
three in number. 
31. CEATEROPUS GULARIS. 
THE WHITE-THROATED BUSH-BABBLER. 
Chatarrhoea gularis, Bl. J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 478 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 124 ; 
Anderson, Yunnan Exped. p. 639, pi. xlviii. ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 97. Crateropus 
gularis, Bl. B. Burm. p. 117. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and a line on either side con- 
tinued up to the eye grey, each feather with a blackish stripe down the 
centre ; top of head, neck and back with the scapulars ruddy brown, each 
feather with a dark brown shaft-stripe ; rump olive-brown, and the 
upper tail-coverts the same, with indistinct shaft-stripes ; wings and wing- 
coverts olive-brown, some of the greater coverts indistinctly dark-shafted ; 
ear-coverts and sides of neck ruddy brown ; lores black ; chin^ throat, 
cheeks and upper breast white ; remainder of lower plumage ruddy brown ; 
tail olive-brown, with numerous cross bars of darker brown. 
Length 10 inches, tail 5 '4, wing 3*2, tarsus 1*4, bill from gape 1. 
The White-throated Bush- Babbler is confined to the northern portions 
of the Pegu division in the Irrawaddy valley. It is very common at 
Thayetmyo. To the east I have observed it as far as Tamagan ; to the 
west it probably occurs up to the foot of the Arrakan hills ; and to the 
south it is found as far as Prome. 
Mr. Blanford observed it in Native Burmah, and Dr. Anderson pro- 
cured it near Bhamo. 
This Babbler is a well-known bird to persons who have resided at 
Thayetmyo, for it is very familiar, entering gardens and compounds. It 
goes about in small parties and the birds have the habit of following one 
another from bush to bush in single file. It is a noisy bird. Its nest has 
not yet been found. 
