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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
32. CRATEROPUS CAUDATUS. 
THE STRIATED BUSH-BABBLER. 
Cossyphus caudatus (Dumeril), Drapiez, Diet. Class. d^Hist. Nat. x. p. 219. 
Cliatarrlioea caudata, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 67 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 274 ; 
Hume ^ Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 197, pi. ix. ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. 337, viii. 
p. 97. Crateropus caudatus, Bl. B. Burm. p. 118 ; Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. 
ix. p. 189. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage ashy brown 
tinged with fulvous_, each feather with a dark brown streak down the 
centre; upper wing- and tail-coverts with the shafts only dark brown; 
quills plain ashy brown, lighter on the outer webs ; tail ashy brown^ the 
shafts very dark brown, and each feather obsoletely cross-barred ; chin 
and throat fulvous white ; lores brown ; ear-coverts rufescent ; lower 
plumage pale fulvous, albescent on the abdomen, and the sides of the 
breast faintly striated. 
Bill pale brownish horny ; legs dull yellow; irides red-brown. {Jerdon.) 
Length 9*5 inches, tail 4*5, wing 3, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1. 
The Striated Bush-Babbler is said by Mr. Blyth to have occurred in 
Arrakan and also at Thayetmyo. I have not myself met with it, nor has 
it been again recorded from Burmah by any recent observer. 
It inhabits every portion of the Indian peninsula from Cape Comorin 
up to Cashmere and Bengal, and even ranges into Persia, unless the 
species there found (C. huttoni) should prove to be distinct. 
It is probably found in the Indo-Burmese countries. It is said to have 
occurred even in the Philippine Islands. 
This Babbler frequents plains covered with bushes, and appears to be 
one of the commonest birds of India, entering gardens and compounds. 
It makes a cup-shaped nest, and lays blue eggs. 
