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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

158. Erythrocichla bicolor

158. Erythrocichla bicolor.

The Ferruginous Babbler.

Brachypteryx bicolor, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 138. Malacopteron ferruginosum, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 383 (1814); Hume & Dav. S. F. vi, p. 273; Hume, Cat. no. 396 quat. Trichastoma bicolor (Less.), Blyth, Cat. p. 147; Horsf. & M. Cat. i, p. 226. Trichostoma ferruginosum (Blyth), Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 47; Oates, B. B. i, p. 58. Erythrocichla bicolor (Less.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 551.

Coloration. The whole upper plumage ferruginous, the crown brighter; upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut; lores dull white or pale fulvous; sides of the "head like the crown; lower plumage white, suffused with brownish on the breast and less so on the sides of the body.

Legs and feet fleshy white; upper mandible dirty white, lower dark brown ; iris pale wood-brown (Hume & Davison).

Length about 6.5; tail 2.4; wing 3.1 ; tarsus 1.1; bill from gape .9.

Distribution. The extreme south of Tenasserim, extending down to the Malay peninsula and to Sumatra and Borneo.

Habits, &c. According to Davison this bird is strictly a ground-bird, only flying up into trees when disturbed.

BookTitle: 
The Fauna Of British India including Ceylon and Burma
Reference: 
OATES EW. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol.1 1889.
Title in Book: 
158. Erythrocichla bicolor
Book Author: 
Eugene William Oates, Edited by William Thomas Blanford
CatNo: 
158
Year: 
1889
Page No: 
152
Common name: 
Ferruginous Babbler
M_ID: 
24612
M_CN: 
Ferruginous Babbler
M_SN: 
Trichastoma bicolor
Volume: 
Vol. 1
id: 
208

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