. Birds .. . u-galao (Gachari). Description. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the neck and mantle 256 TIMAIIID^. dark rufescent brown, with very distinct fulvous shaft-stripes;the feathers of the back with the inner webs black and the outerwebs brown and with pale fulvous shafts; rump, upper tail-covertsand tail plain rufescent; wing-coverts and the outer webs of thequills rufous-brown, the former with pale shafts; lores fulvous ;ear-coverts rufous-ashy with paler shafts; cheeks mixed black andfulvous, with a black line above; chin fulvous-white; throat,breast and abdomen rufescent brown^ with
. Birds .. . u-galao (Gachari). Description. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the neck and mantle 256 TIMAIIID^. dark rufescent brown, with very distinct fulvous shaft-stripes;the feathers of the back with the inner webs black and the outerwebs brown and with pale fulvous shafts; rump, upper tail-covertsand tail plain rufescent; wing-coverts and the outer webs of thequills rufous-brown, the former with pale shafts; lores fulvous ;ear-coverts rufous-ashy with paler shafts; cheeks mixed black andfulvous, with a black line above; chin fulvous-white; throat,breast and abdomen rufescent brown^ with large pale fulvous shaft-streaks ; sides of body and thighs plain rufescent brown ; ventand under tail-coverts ferruginous. Colours of soft parts. Iris light red-brown; upper mandiblevery dark horny, blackish at the base, paler at the tip ; gape andedge of lower mandible blackish, remainder pale horny ; legs palelivid fleshy with no tinge of red but the tarsi tinted brown, thesoles, claw and joints very Pig. 46.—Head of if. malacoptilus. Measnrementa. Total length about 125 to 130 mm.; wing 57to 60 mm.: tail about 25 mm.; tarsus about 23 mm.; culmenabout 21 to 24 mm. Distribution. Sikkim to E. Assam North and South of theBrahmaputra; Manipur and Looshai. Nidification. This Babbler breeds in the hills both North andSouth of the Brahmaputra throughout Assam from 4,000 feet up-wards, and in the extreme East, nearer the snowy mountains, down to3,000 feet. It breeds in much the same sort of country as Turdin-ulus but affects more open forest and nests may be found, thoughrarely, in scrub-jungle or deserted, overgrown, cultivation. Tlienest is a large domed affair, measuring 8 or 9 inclies in lieight by5 J to 6| in breadth, the entrance, which is near the top, measuringabout 2 inches across. It is made of dead leaves, bracken fronds,grass, sometimes a little moss, and lined with dead leaves is always placed on the ground and nearly always amongst theroots of bushes o
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