• 2. TEPHK0D0RX19. 275 



1. Tephrodornis pondicetianus. 



Gobe-mouche de Pondich^ry, Sonn. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 198. 



Muscicapa pondiceriaua, Gm. S. N. i. p. 939. 



The Keroiila Shrike, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. ii. p. 29. 



Lanius muscicapoides, Frankl. P. Z. S. 18.31, p. 117 ; id. J. A. S. B. 



i. p. 265. 

 Keroula iudica, J. E. Gray in Hardiv. III. Zool. pi. 33 (1833-34). 

 Lauius gi'iseus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii. p. 573. 

 Lanius sordidus, Less. Compl. Buff. ii. p. 422. 

 Tenthaca leucurus, Jlodgs. Ind. Revieio, i. p. 447. 

 Taplirodornis superciliosus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 237; Blyth, 



J. A. 8. B. xi. p. 799. 

 Tephrodornis superciliosa, Stcains. An. in 3Ienag. p. 283. 

 Tephrodornis pondiceriaua, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 305 ; id. Cat. B. 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 153 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 358 ; Horsf. S; Moore, Cat. 



B. Mm. E.l. Co. i. p. 169 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 410; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 394; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 177; Adam, t. c. p. 376; 



Ball, !S. F. 1874, p. 399 ; Hume, S. F. 1875, p. 92 ; id. Nests and 



Eyys Ind. B. p. 176; Blyth. Sf TVald. B. Burm. p. 122. 

 Tephrodornis indica, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 290 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 



8fC. Nepal, Hodys. p. 99. 



Adidt. Above ashy brown, the nimp rather greyer ; across the 

 lower rump a white band ; upper tail-coverts blackish ; tail dark 

 brown, the two centre feathers much lighter brown, the two outer- 

 most white, dark brown at the base, and spotted at the tip with a 

 mark of the same colour, confined to the outer web of the last 

 feather ; wing-coverts ashy brown like the back, the greater series 

 browner, as also the quills, these having paler brown margins and 

 being washed externally with grey ; lores and nasal plumes ful- 

 vescent, produced into a well-defined superciliary- band of fulvous 

 white ; feathers in front of and round the eye ashy brown, darker 

 than the back ; cheeks, throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 white, the breast greyish brown, extending onto the throat ; thighs 

 ashy brown ; under wing-coverts dull cinereous, the edge of the 

 wing whitish ; bill dusky homy ; legs plumbeous brown ; iris 

 greenish jeUow. Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-15, 

 tail 2-55, tarsus 0-75. 



Obs. The black markings at the ends of the two outer feathers 

 seem to disappear with age, leaving the M'hole feather white. Capt. 

 Pinwill's specimens from the Korth-west Himalayas are very much 

 paler and greyer than those from Southern India ; they are also 

 rather larger ; wing 3-5. The bird described is from Travancore. 



Hah. India, ranging into the liurmcse and Indo-Chinese countries ; 

 Hainan. 



a, b. Ad. st. India. J. Gould, Esq. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Travancore. Capt. T. Biddulph [C] 



e. Ad. sk. Madras. Rev. II. H. Baber [C.]. 



f, g. Ad. sk. Kamptee, C. P. Dr. Hinde [P.]. 



A, i. .\d. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.l. 



k, I, m. Ad. 9k. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, p:sq. [P.]. 



n-q. S 2 ad. sk. N.W. Himalavas. Capt. Stackhouse PinwUl [P.] 



r. Ad. sk. Pepru. ' W. T. Blanford, E,sq. [P.]. 



