7. MONTICOLA. 321 



B. Hinml. M. letteqiress to pi. xix. (1832) ; Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, 



p. 88. 

 Phoenicura cinclorhynclia ( Vigors), Gould, Cent. B. Himal. M. pi. xix. 



(1832). 

 Turdus (Peti'ocincla) melanotu8,2)i/ Bus, Bull. Ac. Sci. Bru.v. yi. pt. 1, 



p. 506 (1839) ; Gra;/, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1817). 

 Petrophila cinclorhynclia ( Jl(/ors), Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 252 



(1830) ; Hume, Nests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 227 (1873). 

 Petrocossypbus aurautiiventer, Less. Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 1G6. 

 Petrocossyphiis cinclorhynchus ( Vigors), Gray, Cat. Mamm. 8j-c. 



Nepal Coll. Iludgs. p. 79 (1816). 

 Monticola cinclorhyncha (Vigors), Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. x\i. p. 152 



(1847) ; Bh/t/i, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 164 (1849). 

 Turdus cinclorliynclius ( Vigors), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 261. no." 3808 (1869). 

 Orocetes cinclorhynchus ( Viqors), Bp. Consp. i. p. 297 (1850); Horsf. 



4- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E'.I. Co. i. p. 188 (1854); Jerd. B. Ind.'i. 



p. 515 (1862). 

 Orocoetus cinclorhynchus ( Vigors), Blyth <§• Wald. B. Burm. p. 99 



(1875). 



In the adult male in hreeding-plumage the forehead, crown, nape, 

 chin, upper throat, and cheeks are cobalt-blue ; lores, ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, back, and scapulars black ; wings dark brown, the 

 basal half of the outside webs of the secondaries white, the 

 outside webs of the primaries, primary-coverts, greater and 

 median coverts edged with dull blue ; lesser wing-coverts cobalt- 

 blue. Hump, upper tail-coverts, and the whole of the underparts, 

 including the axillaries and under wing-coverts, chestnut, except 

 the chin and upper throat ; inner margin of quills pale brown ; 

 tail dark brown, the outside webs of the feathers margined with 

 dull blue. Bill nearly black. Wing with the third, fourth, and 

 fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary about equal 

 to the sixth, bastard primary 1-0 to 0-9 inch. Legs, feet, and 

 claws brown. Length of wing 4-12 to 3-9 inches, tail 3-0 to 2-Q, 

 culmen 0-9 to 0-85, tarsus 1-0 to 0*9. 



In the adult female in hreeding-plumage the general colour of the 

 upper parts is greyish olive-brown, the rump and tipper tail-coverts 

 barred with dark brown and brownish white; wings and tail brown, 

 the basal half of the outside webs of the secondaries edged with 

 russet-brown : the whole of the undcqiarts greyish white, each 

 feather with a subterminal, narrow, dark brown bar ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts pale ochraceous barred with dark brown. 

 After the autumn moidt each cobalt-l)lue and black feather of the 

 male has a brown margin, which is cast in the spring. The 

 autumnal margins of the brown feathers of the female are only very 

 slightly paler than the body of the feather. Birds of the year differ 

 from adults only in having ochraceous tips to the greater wing- 

 coverts. Young in first plumage resemble the female on the under- 

 parts, and have all the small feathers of the upper parts similarly 

 marked, the quills and tail-feathers of the young male resembling 

 those of the adult male, and those of the young female, especially 

 the tail, being russct-brown. Very old females ai'e said to assume 

 the male plumage. 



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