. Birds. Birds. OEATIBOPUS. Ill Malacocercus terricolor (Hodgs.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 59; Hvme, N. Sr E. p. 269; id. S. F. i, p. 180; Oripps, S. F. vii, p. 278; Hume, Cat. no. 432; Barnes, Birds Bom, p. 179 j Hume, S. F. xi, p. 174. Crateropus canorus (Linn.), Sharps, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 478; Oates in Humes N. ^ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 74. The Bengal Babbler, Jerd.; The Jungle Babbler, Jerd.; Cliatarhia, Bong.; Pengya-maina, Hind, in the Upper Provs.; Sat bhai, Janglirkhyr, Ghonghai, Hind.; Pedda sida, Tel. Coloration. Upper plumage, coverts, and tertiaries pale brown, ciaereous on the head and rump, s
. Birds. Birds. OEATIBOPUS. Ill Malacocercus terricolor (Hodgs.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 59; Hvme, N. Sr E. p. 269; id. S. F. i, p. 180; Oripps, S. F. vii, p. 278; Hume, Cat. no. 432; Barnes, Birds Bom, p. 179 j Hume, S. F. xi, p. 174. Crateropus canorus (Linn.), Sharps, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 478; Oates in Humes N. ^ E. 2nd ed. i, p. 74. The Bengal Babbler, Jerd.; The Jungle Babbler, Jerd.; Cliatarhia, Bong.; Pengya-maina, Hind, in the Upper Provs.; Sat bhai, Janglirkhyr, Ghonghai, Hind.; Pedda sida, Tel. Coloration. Upper plumage, coverts, and tertiaries pale brown, ciaereous on the head and rump, slightly fulvous on the upper tail-coverts, the back with dark brown streaks and whitish shaft- stripes ; tail brown, paler near the base and darker towards the end, which is tipped white and cross-rayed; wings dark brown, edged with ashy on the outer webs ; lores whitish with a narrow black line above them ; sides of the head like the crown; chin and. Fig. 30.—Head of C cattorus. throat cinereous, faintly cross-barred darker; breast fulvous ashy with whitish shafts ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ful\ous, the sides tinged with brown, and with faint-white shafts. Iris yellowish white; orbital skin pale yellow; legs and claws fleshy yellow (Oripps). Length about 10 ; tail 4-3 ; wing 4-2; tarsus 1-3; bill from gape 1"2. It is impossible for any description to cover all the changes of colour which this bird undergoes throughout the year from the fresh moult to the time when the feathers get worn down. The chief point to note about this species is that the chin and throat are pale with no bars or marks of black or dark brown, as in the others.' After carefully examining a very large series of this Babbler from every part of India that it inhabits, I am unable to find that there is more than one species or even race. Jerdon recognized two species and he differentiated them precisely by those "characters which are continually varying according as the plumage is fre
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