28. DRYONASTES. 455 



p. 391 (1844), xiv. p. 599 (1845) ; Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 225 (1846) ; 

 id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 82 (1846) ; Bbjth, Cat. 

 B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 97 (1849) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 

 Mus. i. p. 205 (1854); Jerd. B. tnd. ii. p. 38 (1863); Graij, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 282, no. 4172 (1869) ; Hume, Nests S)- Eggs Ind. 

 B. p. 254 (1873) ; id. Sti: F. 1879, p. 96. 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, the wing-coverts 

 like the back, the primary-coverts slightly more ashy ; quills brown, 

 externally olive-brown like the back, the primaries ashy on the 

 outer web ; tail-feathers black, banded across with dusky under 

 certain lights, and slightly washed with olive-brown near the base ; 

 head and nape dark slaty grey ; a broad frontal band, lores and 

 nasal plumes, feathers over the eye, ear-coverts, sides of face, cheeks, 

 throat, and fore neck black, somewhat blackish brown on the latter ; 

 sides of neck bright rufous, extending behind the ear-coverts to 

 above the latter; remainder of lander surface of body from the 

 fore neck downwards ashy olive-brown like the back ; the centre of 

 the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts bright ferruginous; thighs 

 ashy olive- brown washed with ferruginous ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy olive-brown, slightly washed with rufous ; quills 

 dusky brown, pale rufescent along the margin of the inner web ; 

 " bill black ; legs livid brown ; iris dull red " (Jerdon). Total 

 length 9 inches, culmeu 0-9, wing 3-75, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-4. 



Hab. Himalayas from Nepal to Assam, and hills of Upper 

 Burmah. 



2. Dryonastes chinensis. 



Petit Geay de la Chine, Somi. Voy. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 188, pi. 107 



(1782). 

 Black-faced Thrush, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 37 (1783j. 

 Lauius chiuensi.s, Scop. Del. Fhr. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 86 (1786). 

 Turdus sliauhu, Gm. Sgst. Nat. i. p. 814 (1788). 

 Turdus melanopsis, Gi'n. Syst. Nat. i. p. 820 (1788, e.v Lath.). 

 Corvus auritus, Daiid. Trnite, ii. p. 250 (1800)._ 

 Crateropus leucogenys, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 180 (1842). 

 Garrulax chinensis, 'Bh/th', J. A. S. Benq. xiv. p. 598 (1845) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 95 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 370 (1850) ; 



Horsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 202 (1854) ; Walden, 



P. Z. S. 1860, p. 549 ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 281, no. 4153 (1869) ; 



