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260 Distribution. The extreme South of Tenasserim, extending down the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Borneo.

Nidification and Habits. Nothing recorded beyond the fact that Hume asserts it is arboreal.

The genus Malacocincla differs from all the other genera of this subfamily with stout straight bills in having the nostrils oval and exposed, with no protecting membrane. The rictal bristles are well developed but there are no hairs overhanging the nostrils. The tail is shorter than the wing. The name Turdinus being preoccupied, the above takes its place.


 * Malacocincla abbotti Blyth, J. A. S. B., xiv, p. 601 (1845) (Ramree, Arrakan).
 * Turdinus abbotti. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 154.

Vernacular names. None recorded.

Description. Whole upper plumage rich olive-brown, the forehead with fulvous streaks, the other feathers with pale shafts; exposed parts of wing-quills like the back; upper tail-coverts and tail deep rufous; lores round the eye and a short supercilium dark grey; ear-coverts rufous with fulvous shafts; chin, throat and cheeks pale grey; sides of neck, breast and body earthy ferruginous, centre of breast and abdomen whitish; under tail-coverts bright ferruginous.

Colours of soft parts. Iris light reddish brown to red; eyelids plumbeous; upper mandible dark horny-brown, tip and lower mandible pale horny or bluish-horny; legs and feet pale fleshy, claws pale horny.

Measurements. Total length about 18O mm.; wing 74 to 77 mm.; tail about 50 to 52 mm.; tarsus about 25 mm.; culmen about 18 mm.

Distribution. Nepal, Sikkim, E. Bengal, Assam, Burma to the Malay Peninsula, and Siam.