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438. Chatarrhcea caudata (Dumeril). (PI. IX.) 
This species was very common on the low hills on the 
roads leading into Kashmir from the Plains of the Panjab, 
as, indeed, it is in those plains and throughout India gene- 
rally. [G. H.] 
The specimens obtained near Punch, one of which we figure, 
though perhaps slightly larger and darker than the majority 
of those found in the N.W. Provinces, do not at all come 
up to the dimensions assigned by Blyth to his C. Huttoni 
from Afghanistan. 
This species is said to extend to the Philippines (Puch. 
Arch, du Mus. vii. p. 342). Neither this nor the nearly 
allied C. Ear Hi (PI. X.) appear to have been as yet properly 
figured. 
This latter species is common (of which fact Dr. Jerdon 
does not seem aware) throughout the Rohilcund Terai, and 
the north of Shahjehanpore, Bareilly, and Bijnaur, in the 
Dhoon, and the north of the Saharanpur district ; nothing 
seems to have been recorded of its nidification. I have 
repeatedly taken its eggs, but prefer to any account of my 
own a brief note on the breeding of this species sent me 
long ago by Captain G. F. L. Marshall, R.E. : In the 
Saharanpur district C. Earlii commences building about 
the middle of March, and the young are hatched towards the 
middle of April. The nest is usually placed in the middle 
of a tuft of Sarkerry grass, and sometimes in a bush or 
small tree, generally three or four feet from the ground; it 
lights), obsoletely and narrowly barred with a faintly browner shade, the 
feathers tipped with a pale dingy grey, and with a narrow subterminal dark 
band, both tipping and band being most conspicuous on the exterior tail- 
feathers, and becoming gradually less marked towards the central feathers, 
where they are almost obsolete. The wings are brown, the coverts and 
outer-webs of the primaries strongly tinged with the same colour as 
the tail. The lores are dusky, each feather tipped with yellowish white, 
and there is an incomplete irregular circle of tiny whitish feathers round 
the eye. The ear-coverts are rufous. The chin, upper portion of throat 
and cheeks dull ashy, the feathers centered narrowly with rufous, and 
mostly with paler shafts. The lower portion of the throat, chest, and 
abdomen a rich rufous or rusty brown, eacli feather conspicuously paler 
centered and with a narrow ashy, or in some yellowish white, margin ; 
vent and lower tail-coverts a nearly uniform olive brown. \^A. O. HJ] 
