24. CITTOCINCLA. 91 



Female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller. For dimensions 

 of the two sexes, cf. Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 232. 



Young. " Similar to adult, hut smaller ; the chin, throat, and 

 breast glossless black ; the quills hair-brown ; the secondaries mar- 

 gined faiutlj- with ferruginous on the outer webs, as also are their 

 greater and some of the median coverts ; the sides of the abdomen 

 are tinged with ferruginous ; the gloss of the upper parts is much 

 fainter." {Hume, he. cit.) 



Nestling. " Entire head, neck, breast, and back deep brown, almost 

 black on the breast, each feather with a smaller or larger duU 

 ferruginous spot towards the tip ; the quills and coverts are all 

 margined on the outer webs with dull ferruginous, the lesser coverts 

 with dull spots of the same colour ; the flanks and sides of the 

 abdomen mottled dusky and pale ferruginous." (Hume, ?. c.) 



Ilab. Andaman Islands. 



a. cJ ad. sk. South Andaman, May 5, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1873 {Wardlaw Bamsay). 



b. Ad. sk. S. Andaman, March 14, 1873 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



{E. G. W. E.). 



6. Cittocincla luzoniensis. 



Turdus luzoniensis, Eittl. Eupf. Viig. p. 7, pi. 11. fig. 2 (1832) ; id. 



Mem. Acad. S. Petersh. ii. p. 5, pi. 7 (18.33). 

 Copsvchus luzoniensis, i?;j. Consp. i. p. 266 (1850) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1861, p. 186 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3887 (1869).^ 

 Cossvpha pyrrhopygia, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 78 (1857) ; id. 



J.y. 0. 1861, p. l63; SJiarpe, Ann. S) Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. 



p. '2.36 (1875). 

 Bessonornis pyrrhopygia, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3872 (1869). 

 Cittocincla luzoniensis, JValden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pp. 193, 250 



(1875) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. new series,!, p. 352 (1876) ; 



WardUno Eanisay, Orn. Mem. Tweedd. pp. 358, 411, 657 (1881). 



Adult. General colour of the upper surface blue-black ; the lower 

 back, rump, and upper fcail-covorts orange-chestnut ; the head with 

 a slightly browner tinge than the back ; over the eye a broad streak 

 of white produced to the nape ; lores, sides of face, neck, throat, and 

 fore neck glossy blue-black ; remainder of under surface white, the 

 sides of the body washed with rufous ; thighs and under wing- and 

 tail-coverts white ; upper wing-coverts blue-black, some of the centre 

 greater coverts white on the outer web and at the tip, forming an 

 alar speculum ; quills blackish, the secondaries blue-black like the 

 back, the primaries narrowly margined with brown ; tail black, the 

 three outer feathers on each side tipped with white : bill black ; 

 feet ycUowish. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-05, 

 tail 3-3, tarsus 1"05. 



Ohs. Another specimen in the Museum, received from the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, Milhout more indication of the exact locality than 

 " Philippine Islands," is smaller than the one described : wing 2-95 ; 



