354 TIKDIP-E. 



<'. J ad.sk. lliiiiahiva!?. India Mu.seiuu. 



/,.(/• c? 2 ad. sk. Jiiiiialayas. Dr. Stoliezka [!'.]. 



"/(,('. (5 ad. sk. N.W. Iliiiialayas. Capt.StackliousePiuwill [I'.J. 



k. c? ad. ,«k. Clnni, Koonawar, July 3, India Museum. 



1844. 

 /. (S ad. St. Nepal. B. 11. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of rhcenicura vceruleus, Ilodgs.) 

 m. J ad. sk. Bootau (Pemherton). India Museum. 



)t. cS ad. sk. Dscliasyl Kul, near Lepsa, Dr. 0. Finsch [C.]. 

 Turkestan, May 15, 1876. 



10. MYRMECOCICHLA. .j,^^^^ 



Myrmecocickla, Cah. Mvs. Hein. i. p. 8 (18"j0) M. formicivora. 



Cercomela, Up. Coinpt. liend. xlii. p. 706 (1856) .... M. melanura. 



Tail of Myrmecockhla imUux. 



The geniis Myrmecocklila comprises a small groiip of birds which 

 connect the Chats with the Robins. From the former they may 

 always be known by the pattern of the tail, which is either wanting 

 altogether, or present in onlj' a rudimentary form. "Where there is 

 any white at the base or outside webs of any of the tail-feathers, 

 the species may at once be distinguished by the emarginated tip of 

 the second primary. It is not so easy to give characters which shall 

 always separate them from the Kobins. Their black or dark-brown 

 legs will separate them from the plain-coloured Robins ; and the 

 absence of brilliant colours, such as crimson or rich chestnut, and of 

 violent contrasts in the colours of the cheeks and throat, will separate 

 them from the darker-legged Robins. The bill is black and Saxico- 

 line in shape ; and the rictal bristles are small. The tail consists of 

 twelve feathers and is slightly rounded. 



In their habits these birds are more Chats than Robins, frequenting 

 rocks and open ground. 



