308 



TURDIDJE. 



i. S ad.sk. Kumaon ( <%/•«(:■/«>(/). India Museum. 



k. (J ad. sk. Nepal (Jlodz/son). India Museum. 



I, m, n. S ad. st. Nepal (HoiUjson). B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.l. 



o. ^ ]\\\\; p. 2 Nepal (IfofZ^AWi). B. II. Hodgson, Esq. [P.J. 

 ad. sk. 



14. Erithacus tschebaiewi. 



Calliope tschebaiewi, Prjev. Rowlerfs Orn. Misc. ii. p. 180, pi. liv. 

 fig. 1 (1877) ; Gould, B. Asia, pt! xxxi. pi. 10 (1879). 



Adtdt nude. General colour of the upper parts dark slate-grey, 

 suffused with olive-hrown on the head and rump ; lores black ; ear- 

 coverts dark brown ; eye-stripe white, not extending far behind 

 the e5-e ; quills brown, edged with olive-brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 dark slate-grey : median wing-coverts edged with dark slate-grey ; 

 greater wing-coverts and innermost secondaries olive-brown ; tail 

 nearly black, the two centre feathers entirely so, the next on each 

 side tipped with white, the remaining four on each side with the 

 basal half white, except the outside web of the outside feather on 

 each side and a large white spot at the tip ; cheeks white, edged 

 with black. Chin and throat glossy scarlet ; breast black ; axillaries, 

 under wing-coverts, and flanks slate-grey ; belly and under tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with slate-grey bases. Bill black. Wings 

 with the fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary about equal to the tenth, bastard primary 1 "25 to 

 1-15 inch. Legs, feet, and claws dark brown. Length of wing 3-25 

 to 2-9 inches, tail 25 to 21, culmen 0-G6 to 0-6, tarsus 1-32 to 1-25. 



The female is described by Prjevalsky as having the upper parts 

 dark olive, with white eye-stripe and black lores ; the underparts 

 dirty white ; the tail dark olive, without the white bases which 

 characterize the male, and with the terminal white spots much 

 smaller. Birds of the year, and young in first j)Jumaye, appear to 

 be unknown. 



The Thibet Eiiby-throated llobin has hitherto only been found in 

 Kansu and Sikkim. It probably breeds in the pine-regions of these 

 and the intervening country, descending into the valleys during the 

 cold season. 



a. (S ad. sk. Sikkim. Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



15. Erithacus cseruleculus. 



Motacilla suecica, Linn. St/d. Kat. i. p. a'.'>(j (IIGG, partim). 

 Motacilla cserulecula, Pallas, Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 480 (1811). 

 Ficedula suecica (Linn.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553 (pa7iim). 

 Curruca suecica (Lin7i.), Selby, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Nortlmmb. i. 



p. 255 (1831). 

 Cyanecula suecica {Linn.), Brehrn, Voy. DeutscJd. p. 350 (1831)* ; 



Jti'ipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 67 (1845) ; Grai), Cat. Mamm. i$-c. Nepal 



Coll. Hoclqs. p. 70 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 182 (1846, jyartim) ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p.*lG7 (1849) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 311 (1854) ; Ilew/l. Syst. Uebers. p. 25 



(1856); Gray, Cat. Blannn. 8,-c. Nepal Coll. liodgs. p. 35 (1863) ; 



Gould, B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 49 {circ. 1869); Gray , Hand-l. B. i. p. 223. 



* See footnote, p. 336, which applies equally to these names. 



