. Birds. Birds. GAMPSOEHTNCHUS, 135 nidification. The young birds deviate considerably from the adult in the colour of their plumage, more so than is usual in this sub- family. Pending a better acquaintance with them, their position at present appes^rs to be in the TimeliincB. They are birds of rufous or golden-brown plumage with white heads. The bill is about half the length of the head and very shrike-like ill shape. The rictal bristles are very long. The tail is much longer than the wing and much graduated, the outer feather extending over less than two thirds of the tail. They appear to be
. Birds. Birds. GAMPSOEHTNCHUS, 135 nidification. The young birds deviate considerably from the adult in the colour of their plumage, more so than is usual in this sub- family. Pending a better acquaintance with them, their position at present appes^rs to be in the TimeliincB. They are birds of rufous or golden-brown plumage with white heads. The bill is about half the length of the head and very shrike-like ill shape. The rictal bristles are very long. The tail is much longer than the wing and much graduated, the outer feather extending over less than two thirds of the tail. They appear to be frequenters of thick jungle and to creep about in the manner of the TimeliincB, Key to the Species *. a. Tail tipped with yellowish buff; upper plumage golden brown Q, rufuhts, p. 135. h. Tail tipped with white; upper plumage rufous brown 6. torquatw, p. 136. 137. Gampsorhynchus rufulus. The White-headed Shrilce-Babbler. Gampsorhynchus rufulus, Blyth, J. A. 8. B, xiii, p. 371 (1844) ; id. Cat. p. 150; Horrf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 171; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 14 Blyth Sf Wald. Birds Burm. p. 109; Wald. Ibis, 1875, p. 460 J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 73; Hnme, Cat. no. 384 Oates, B. B. i, p. 40; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 386 ; Hvme, S. F. xi, p. 135. The White-headed Shrike-Thrush, JevA.; CJiongto-phep-pho, li&^ Kg. 38.—Head of G. nifi Coloration. The whole head, neck, and breast white; the anterior rictal bristles black with white bases, the hindmost one entirely white; upper plumage, tail, and exposed part of vidngs golden brown, except the lesser and median coverts and the edge of the wing which are white ; quills dark brown; tail edged interiorly and tipped with yellowish buff; lower plumage pale fulvous. Bill dusky horny above, pale beneath ; legs reddish horny; iris orange-yellow in some, straw-yellow in others (Jerdori). * Here should be noticed the Thamnocataphus picatus. Tick., of Jerdon (B. I. ii. p. 13), which turns out to be a well-inown South-African Bush-
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