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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
upper part of the abdomen clear plumbeous ; abdoiiien_, flanks, vent and 
under tail-coverts fulvous brown ; upper plumage rufescent brown ; wing- 
coverts, wings and tail bright ferruginous. 
The bill is dark plumbeous blue ; the upper mandible darkest, in some 
brownish ; visible skin of cheeks and orbits from pure light to dull dirty 
smalt-blue ; irides madder-red to deep brown ; legs, feet and claws very 
pale, almost white, tinged with greenish or yellowish green. {Davison.) 
Length 5*5 inches, tail 2, wing 2*3, tarsus "8, bill from gape '7. The 
female is about the same size. 
The Red-winged Tree-Babbler was procured in Tenasserim by Mr. Davi- 
son, who states that it is common in the extreme south of the Division. It 
ranges down the Malay peninsula to the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. 
According to Mr. Davison it is found in small parties in the evergreen 
forest, frequenting brushwood and trees and never descending to the 
ground. He found the nest in April : it was a ball about 6 inches in 
diameter, composed of dry reed-leaves, and the entrance to it was a cir- 
cular aperture at one side. It did not contain any eggs. The nest was 
placed in a bush about 4 feet from the ground. 
Timelia bicolor, BL, was long thought to be the male and the present 
bird the female of the same species. It has been conclusively shown by 
Mr. Hume that the two sexes of this bird are alike in plumage and that 
T. bicolor is a distinct species. 
Genus STACHYRIDOPSIS, Sharpe *. 
54. STACHYRIDOPSIS CHRYSEA. 
THE GOLDEN-HEADED TREE-BABBLER. 
Stachyrhis chrysgea, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 379 ; Jerd. JB, Ind. ii. p. 22 ; Hume^ 
Nests and Eggs, p. 245 ; BL Sf Wald. B. Burnt, p. 116 ; Anders. Yunnan JExped. 
p. 637 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 95. Stachyridopsis chrysea, Sharps, Cat Birds 
B. Mus. vii. p. 
Description. — Male and female. Whole upper plumage olive-yellow, the 
feathers of the top of the head with mesial broad black streaks ; wings 
brown, the outer edges of the feathers olive -yellow ; tail olive-brown, the 
outer margins olive-yellow ; lores and in front of eye black ; ear-coverts 
olive-yellow ; the whole lower plumage bright yellow. 
* I have had the advantage of working up the difficult Timeliine group at the same 
time that Mr. Sharpe was engaged upon it for his forthcoming vokime of the British 
Museum Catalogue. I avail myself with pleasure of Mr. Sharpe's rectifications of genera. 
