. Birds. Birds. MIXORNIS. 273 Kloss's connectens I cannot separate from pUeata the !South Malay form and his name therefore becomes a synonym of that bird. Variation inter ss is so great in the birds of this species that it is quite unsafe to found geographical races on anything but very large Fig. 51.—Head of M. r. rubricapilla. (i283) Mixornis rubricapilla rubricapilla. The Tellow-breasteu Babbler. MotaciUa mhncapilla Tickell, J. A. S. B., ii, p. 576 (1833) (Manbhum). Mixornis riificapilla. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 167. Vernacular names. Dao-pere gatnng-UU (Cachari). Description. C
. Birds. Birds. MIXORNIS. 273 Kloss's connectens I cannot separate from pUeata the !South Malay form and his name therefore becomes a synonym of that bird. Variation inter ss is so great in the birds of this species that it is quite unsafe to found geographical races on anything but very large Fig. 51.—Head of M. r. rubricapilla. (i283) Mixornis rubricapilla rubricapilla. The Tellow-breasteu Babbler. MotaciUa mhncapilla Tickell, J. A. S. B., ii, p. 576 (1833) (Manbhum). Mixornis riificapilla. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 167. Vernacular names. Dao-pere gatnng-UU (Cachari). Description. Crown pale ferruginous blending on the neck into the olive-green of the upper plumage and sides of neck; supercilium, lores and front of forehead yellow, the two latter with black shalts; ear-coverts dull yellow with pale shafts; ciieek, chin, throat and upper breast yellow with black shaft-lines ; centre of breast and abdomen plain yellow ; remainder of lower plumage dull ashy- yellow. Colours of soft parts. Iris white or pale yellow toyellow-oclire ; eyelids pale slate-colour; bill horny-brown or slate-brown, the culmen almost black and the lower mandible paler ; legs olive-or brownish-fleshy, the claws yellower. Measurements. Total length about 125 mm.; wing 53 to 5S mm.; tail about 52 to 54 mm.; tarsus about 18 mm.; culmen 10 to 11 mm. Distribution. Sikkim and Eastern Bengal to Assam and East to Chin, Kachin and Shan States : South to Arrakan and N. Ten- asserim. Nidification. Tiie Yellow-breasted Babbler breeds during April, May and June and sometimes into July at heights up to 2,500 feet or more and also in the plains. In Burma it begins to breed in March. It makes a rough domed nest of grass and bamboo leaves, with a meagre lining of finer grass, which it places either in a bamboo clump or a bush close to, but not on the ground; occasionally 4 or even 5 feet above it. The eggs, generally three, sometimes two only or four, are china-white with numerous specks and small b
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