. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . e congeneric. Key to Species and Sidispecies. A. Head and back distinctly streaked withblacldsb or very dark Chin and throat rufous with dark shaft-stripes A. earlii, p. 197. ARGTA. 197 h. Chin and throat immaculate wliite orpale Lower plumage pale fulvous. [p. 198. a. Above reddish brown A. caudata caudata, b. Above more grey-brown A. c. huttoni, p. 199. h. Lower plumage ferruginous A. gidaris, p. 199. B. Head not streaked, l)ack with oval brown spots A. maleolmi, p. 200. C. ]So streaks or spots on head or upperplu
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . e congeneric. Key to Species and Sidispecies. A. Head and back distinctly streaked withblacldsb or very dark Chin and throat rufous with dark shaft-stripes A. earlii, p. 197. ARGTA. 197 h. Chin and throat immaculate wliite orpale Lower plumage pale fulvous. [p. 198. a. Above reddish brown A. caudata caudata, b. Above more grey-brown A. c. huttoni, p. 199. h. Lower plumage ferruginous A. gidaris, p. 199. B. Head not streaked, l)ack with oval brown spots A. maleolmi, p. 200. C. ]So streaks or spots on head or upperplumage. c. Chin and throat rufous, lores dark .... A. subrufa,^. 201. d. Chin, upper throat and lores white. ... A. louf/irosfns, p. 202. (191) Argya earlii. The Striated Babbler. Malanocerctis earlii Blyth, J. A. S. B., xvii, p. 369 (1844) (Calcutta),Arc/i/a earlii. Bhinf. & Oates, i,p. 105. Vernacular names. Barra-plumja (Hindi). Description. Upper plumage brown tioged with rufous, tliefeathers of the crown largely centred with very dark brown, those. Fig. 32.—Head of A. earlii. of tbe back with very dark sbaft-stripes; upper tail-coverts obso-letely dark-shatted; tail brown, tbe shafts darker and the featherscross-rayed; wings brown, the lesser coverts dark-centred; loresgiey ; cheeks and ear-coverts plain rufescent; chin, throat andbreast the same, the dark stripes increasing in size downwards;remainder of lower plumage pale buffy-brown, albescent in themiddle of tbe abdomen. Colours of soft parts. Iris bright yellow; eyelid plumbeous ;bill , the culmen, nostril and tip darker horn-colour;mouth yellow; legs plumbeous or fleshy-plumbeous, clawspinkish. Measurements. Length about 140 mm.; wing 85 to 93 mm.;tail about 120 to 130 mm.; culmen about 20 mm.; tarsus about•32 mm. Distribution. From Sind to tbe llun of Cutcb, along the baseof the Himalayas to Behar, all over Bebar and Bengal, Eastthrough Assam, Xorth and South of the Brahmaputra, throughChittagong, Ch
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