. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . st and suffused withashv-brovvn on the sides of the breast and abdomen. Colours of soft parts. Iris pale red-browii; upper mandibledark luirn-brown, lower pale ])lumbeous blue; legs and feet ratherdark pinkish-fleshy ; claws pale horny-brown (Davison). Measurements. Total length about 160 to 170 mm.; wing 70to 75 mui. ; tail about 52 to 54 mm.; tarsus about 2i5 mm.;■culmen about 18 to 20 mm. s2 260 Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim, extendingdown the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and liorneo. Nidification and Habit
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . st and suffused withashv-brovvn on the sides of the breast and abdomen. Colours of soft parts. Iris pale red-browii; upper mandibledark luirn-brown, lower pale ])lumbeous blue; legs and feet ratherdark pinkish-fleshy ; claws pale horny-brown (Davison). Measurements. Total length about 160 to 170 mm.; wing 70to 75 mui. ; tail about 52 to 54 mm.; tarsus about 2i5 mm.;■culmen about 18 to 20 mm. s2 260 Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim, extendingdown the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and liorneo. Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded beyond the fact thatHume asserts it is arboreal. Genus MALACOCINCLA Biittik., 1895. The genus Malaeocinda differs from all the other genera of tliissubfamily with stout straight bills in having the nostrils oval andexposed, with no protecting membrane. The rictal bristles arewell developed but there are no hairs overhanging the tail is shorter than the wing. The name Turdinus beingpreoccupied, the above takes its Fig. 48.—Head of M. s. ahhotti. (207) Malacocincla sepiaria JiAiiBLER. Malacocincla ahhotti lilytb, J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 601 (IB-lo) (Ramree^ Arrakan).Turdinus abbotti. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 154. Vernacular names. None recorded. Description. Whole upper plumage rich olive-brown, the fore-head with fulvous streaks, the other feathers with pale shafts ;exposed parts of wing-quills like the back; upper tail-coverts andtail deep rufous; lores round the eye and a short superciliumdark grey; ear-coverts rufous with fulvous shafts ; chin, throatand cheeks pale grey ; sides of neck, breast and body earthyferruginous, centre of breast and abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts bright ferruginous. Colours of soft parts. Iris light reddish brown to red; eyelidsplumbeous ; upper mandible dark horny-brown, tip and lowermandible pale horny or bluish-horny ; legs and feet pale fleshy,claws pale horny. Measurements. Total leng
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