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dusky brown, externally edged with ashy brown ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally edged with lighter brown, the secondaries with 

 an obscure blue gloss ; ujiper tail-coverts glossy blue-black ; tail- 

 feathers black, edged with blue-black ; lores dusky, surmounted by 

 a thin line of fulvous : feathers round the eye fulvous ; ear-coverts 

 reddish brown, with fulvous shaft-streaks ; cheeks and under surface 

 of body ashy brown, darker on the abdomen, sides of body, and 

 flanks ; thighs light brown ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dull brown with an obscure blue gloss ; 

 quills ashy brown below, inner edges lighter. Total length 6 inches, 

 cidmen 0"6, wing 2-75, tail 2*65, tarsus 0'95. 



This species seems to have a winter plumage, as specimens often 

 have the black feathers of the upper surface edged with brown, 

 which gives a browner aspect to the upper parts. These birds may 

 belong, on the other hand, to the intermediate race, between this 

 species and T. cambaiensis, mentioned by Mr. Hume. 



Young. Entirely sooty brown above and below, with lighter brown 

 margins to the feathers ; wing-coverts sooty brown, with reddish- 

 brown edgings ; upper tail-coverts black : quills and tail black, the 

 latter glossy ; under tail-coverts ferruginous. 



Hah. Central and Southern India and Ceylon. 



a, b. S ,c. 2 f>d. sk. Deccan {Burgess). Gould CoUection. 



d, e. cJ 2 ad.sk. Deccan ((SyA'es). lutlia Museum. 



f, g. 6 9- ^^- ^^- '*'• India. 



h. c? ad. sk. Kamjotee, C. India. Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



i. iS imm. ; k. Juv. sk. Ceylon {Thwaites). Hugh Cuming, Esq. 



2. Thanmobia cambaiensis. 



Sylvia cambaiensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 554 (1790). 



Motacilla fulicata (hom Linn.), Tickell, J. A. S. £eng. ii. p. 577 



(1833). 

 Saxicoloides erythrurus, Less. 1837, teste Gray. 

 Cinnyricinclus melasoma, Less. Sev. Zool. 1640, p. 272. 

 Thamnobia scapularis, IIod</s. Leon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 94 (no. 213) : id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Thamnobia fulicata (non Linn.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 2n'es. 



Hodgs. p. 70 (1846). 

 Thamnobia cambaiensis, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 139 (1847) ; 



id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. p. 165 (1849); Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 298 



(1850) ; Lforsf. tf Moore, Cat. B. E.L. Co. Mm. i. p. 283 (1854) ; 



Jerd. B. Lnd. ii. p. 122 (1863) ; Beavan, Lhis, ]867, p. 444; Be/z. 



Lbis, 1868, p. 310; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2989 (1869); 



Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xl. p. 273 (1871) ; Hayes Lloyd, Lbis, 1873, 



p. 410; Hume, Kests <§• Eggs Lnd B. p. 309 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 



1873, p. 182 ; Adam, t. c. p. 379 ; Blanf. Ibis, 1874, p. 301 ; Ball, 



Str. F. 1874, p. 412, 1875, p. 206 ; Bi'dler, Str. F. 1875, p. 474 ; 



Hume, t. c. p. 474 ; Ball, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 216 ; Hume, Str. F. 



1879, p. 99 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 66. 

 Anthreptes melasoma, Bp. Comp. i. p. 409 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 



1854, p. 14. 

 Nectarinia melasoma, Von Midi. J. f. O. 1855, p. 193. 



