THE ALLIED TREE-BABBLER. 
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Bill plumbeous; legs pale brownish yellow; irides light brown. 
{Jerdon.) 
Length 4*5 inches, tail 2, wing 2, tarsus '7b, bill from gape '65. 
An allied species is S. poliogaster, Hume (S. F. ix. p. 116), from the 
Malay peninsula, with a grey face and grey underparts. 
The Golden-headed Tree-Babbler is stated by both Dr. Jerdon and 
Mr. Blyth to have occurred in Arrakan. 
Dr. Anderson met with it near Bhamo, and it also occurs in the hill- 
tracts of Eastern Bengal, Sikhim and Nipal up to an elevation of about 
5000 feet. 
This species appears to be abundant wherever it is met with, but there 
is little on record about it. Dr. Jerdon says that it frequents high trees 
generally, feeding on the minute insects that infest flowers and buds, and 
often has its forehead powdered with the pollen of flowers. 
55. STACHYRIDOPSIS ASSIMILIS. 
THE ALLIED TREE-BABBLER. 
Strachyrhis assimilis, Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 116. Stachyrhis assimilis, 
Hume, S. F. v. p. 56 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. pp. 265, 514 ; Hume, S. F. viii. 
p. 95. Stachyridopsis assimilis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mtis. yii. p. 
Description. — Male and female. Somewhat similar to S. chrysea, but 
differs in having the back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts and the 
margins to the wing- and tail-feathers greenish brown instead of olive-yellow. 
The chin, throat and breast are yellow, but not so bright as in S, chryseaj 
and the remainder of the lower plumage is dull greenish yellow. The 
yellow of the head is also very dull. 
It is of the same size as the preceding species. Mr. Davison states that 
the legs and feet are fleshy yellow ; upper mandible brown ; lower mandible 
pale plumbeous, fleshy at base ; irides deep red-brown. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay gives the iris as lake ; bill lavender, pink at base of mandible ; 
legs brownish yellow; feet greenish. 
The Allied Tree-Babbler w^as discovered by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Karennee at 2800 feet elevation. I have examined his specimens and 
find them to be identical with a series of birds sent to England by 
Mr. Hodgson from Nipal or Sikhim. This gentleman did not, however, 
discriminate the species. Mr. Davison found it on the higher slopes of 
Mooleyit in Tenasserim and also at the foot of Nwalabo in the same 
Division. He says that they were always in small parties, hunting about 
the brushwood, and that he never heard them utter any note. 
