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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
58. MALACOPTERUM MAGNIEOSTEE. 
THE BROWN-HEADED TREE-BABBLER. 
Aleippe magnirostris, Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 277. Malacopteron magnirostris, 
Hume ^- Bav. 8. F. Vi. p. 274 j Huine, S.F. viii. pp. 61, 96. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead grey^ the shafts black; lores 
and an indistinct stripe over the eye grey ; ear-coverts greyish brown^ the 
shafts white ; whole summit of head olive-brown^ the shafts slightly darker ; 
wing-coverts^ back, scapulars^ rump and wings olive-brown tinged with 
fulvous_, the inner webs of the quills plain brown ; tail-coverts and tail fer- 
ruginous, brightest on the coverts and the outer webs of the quills at the 
base of the tail j a band down each side of the throat dark grey-brown ; 
chin and throat white tinged with ashy at the base of the throat ; remainder 
of lower plumage white washed with ashy^ especially on the flanks and 
under tail-coverts. 
Legs, feet and claws pale bluish, sometimes a little darker and more 
plumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny brown, almost black in some ; 
lower mandible bluish white, pale blue or plumbeous ; gape dull yellow ; 
irides red; varying from cinnabar to lake, and lake to crimson. [Davison.) 
Length 7 inches, tail 3_, wing 3*1, tarsus '85, bill from gape '8. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Brown-headed Tree-Babbler was found in the extreme south of Te- 
nasserim by Mr. Davison, who states that it was common there. 
It occurs in the Malay peninsula down to Johore and is recorded from 
Cochin China by Dr. Tiraut. 
According to Mr. Davison this species is usually found in small parties_, 
hunting about the brushwood and tops of the smaller trees for insects. It 
does not descend to the ground. 
Genus TRICHOSTOMA, Blyth. 
69. TRICHOSTOMA ROSTRATUM. 
BLYTH^S THRUSH-BABBLER. 
Trichastoma rostratum, Bl. J. A. S. B. xi. p. 795 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soe. p. 147 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. pp. 60, 160, & ix. pp. 109, 127. Brachypteryx macroptera, 
JSalvad. Atti R. Ac. Sc. Tor. iii. p. 528. Brachypteryx umbratilis, Temm. 
apud Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 220. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, 
tinged with rufescent, especially on the rump ; rump-feathers very long and 
