26. MELANOCICHLA. 451 



like the breast, washed with fawn-colour at the tips ; under wing- 

 coverts deep fawn-colour with paler shaft-streaks, the lower outer 

 coverts dusky ; quills dusky brown below, rufescent along the inner 

 margin ; " bill horny black, base of lower mandible plumbeous ; feet 

 grey-plumbeous ; claws brownish horny ; iris deep red or crimson " 

 {Scully). Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 1*25, wing 5-8, tail 5-4, 

 tarsus 1"8. 



" Sexes alike. All the specimens from Nepal are darker than 

 examples from the Himalayas further to the west ; the streaks on 

 the body-feathers above pure white, or slightly sullied white, not 

 yellowish " {Scully). Specimens from the Dafla hills are decidedly 

 darker than Himalayan examples. The rufous-brown colour is 

 more intense, and the black band on the sides of the head more 

 pronounced, while the ear-coverts are rufous-brown streaked with 

 white, without any admixture of black as in typical G. striata. 

 The light shaft-streaks on the crown are almost obsolete in the 

 Dafla bird. {Mus. H. II. Godiuin- Austen.) 



Toung. Plumage more flufiy than in the adult, reproducing all 

 the colours of the old bird, but everywhere paler and not so rufous ; 

 the light central streaks to the feathers not so strongly pronounced, 

 either on the upper or under surface of the body. 



Hub. Himalayas from Simla to Bootan, extending into the hill- 

 ranges of Eastern Bengal. 



a. Ad. St. Himalayas. 



h, c. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Near Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Pin- 



will [P.]. 



e,f. Ad.sk. Kumaon (/S'i!mc7(«y). . India Museum. 



y. (S imm. sk. Nepal valley, June 26. Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 



h, i, k, I. Ad. ; Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



7n. .luv. sk. [P.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Nepal (Sodysoti). India Museum. 



o. Ad. sk. Daijiling. Heni7 Seebohm, Esq. 



2), q. Ad. sk. Darjiling {Eccks). F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 r. Ad. sk. Bootan {Pemberton). India Museum. 



26. MELANOCICHLA. 



Garrulax, pt., auct. recent. 

 Range. Sumatra. 



1. Melanocichla lugubris. 



lanthocincla lugubris, -S'. MUll. Nat. Tijdschr. 1835, p. 344, pi. 5. 



fig. 2 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 372 (1850). 

 Garrulax lugubris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 281, no. 4158 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above and below blackish slate-colour; the 



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