6. ERITHACUS. 307 



lih/th, Ibis, 1862, p. 303 ; Jerd. B. Inch ii. p. 150 (1SG3) ; Beavan, 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 453 ; Pekehi, Ibis, 1868, p. 310 ; Godw.-Anst. J. A. 

 S. Beng. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 270 (1870) ; Hume, Xests and Eggs Ltd. 

 B. p. 325 (1874) ; Brooks, Stray Feath. 1875, p. 241 : Dresser, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 78 ; Gould, B. Asia, jjt. xxxi. p. 9 (1879). ' 



Bradybates pectoralis (Gould), Gray, Gen.B. i. p. 181 (1846). 



Cvanecula pectoralis (Gould), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 224. no. 3203 

 '(1869). 



Calliope ballioni, Scveiiz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 65, 122 (1873); id. Stray 

 Feath. 1875, p. 429. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts, iucluding the ear- 

 coverts and the sides of the neck, a uniform dark slate-grey, shading 

 into brown on the crown ; lores black; eye-stripes white, meeting 

 in a narrow line over the forehead, extending slightly behind the 

 eye ; wings brown, the outer webs of the wing-coverts slate-grey ; 

 tail with sometimes two and sometimes four centre feathers plain 

 brown, the remaining feathers dark brown, with the basal half, some- 

 times of both webs and sometimes only of the inside webs, and a con- 

 spicuous terminal spot white. Chin and upper throat glossy scarlet ; 

 cheelvs, lower throat, and upper breast dull black ; belly and under 

 tail-coverts white, shading into slate-grej- on the flanks., axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts. Bill black; rictal bristles almost obsolete. 

 Wing with the third to the sixth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary about equal to the tenth, bastard primary 1-1 to 

 0-9 inch, more than half the length of the second. Legs, feet, and 

 claws broM'n. Length of wing 2-9 to 2-7 inches, tail 2-2o to 2-0, 

 cuhnen O-Ooto 0*6, tarsus 1-25 to 1"2 ; outside tail-feathers 0-4 inch 

 shorter than the longest. 



The female differs from the male in having the general colour of 

 the upper parts a uniform earthy brown ; the black on the lores, 

 cheeks, lower throat, and upper breast is replaced by greyish brown, 

 and the scarlet of the chin and upper throat by greyish white ; the 

 slate-grey of the flanks, axillaries, and under wing-coverts is replaced 

 by brown ; the whole of the tail-feathers are brown, including the 

 basal portions, which are white in the male, but the white terminal 

 spots are retained, though less conspicuously. It is not known that 

 any material change of colour is produced by the autumn moult. It 

 is not known that females of iJie year difter from adults ; but males 

 of the year have the parts wliich are black in tlie adult replaced by 

 slaic-grey, and tiiose which are scarlet bj' greyish white. The upper 

 parts resemble those of the female, exce])t the tail, which resembles 

 that of the adult male. Youiirj in first phnnarje resemble the female, 

 but have pale centres and nearly black edges to most of the small 

 feathers. 



The Indian Euby-throated Eobin breeds in the pine-districts of 

 Tuikcstan, and throughout the Himalayas from Cashmere to Assam, 

 descending into the valleys during the cold season. 



a,b. cJ 2 ad. sk. Ca.'^hmere. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. (S; e,f. 2 N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill 



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