Descriptive List of Birds 



Spotted Forktail. F. 630, J. 584, II, with a 

 tail of 6 inches. W. K. 



A very beautiful bird. 



Head and neck jet black, save for a vi^hite 

 patch extending from the centre of the crown 

 to the bill. Shoulders black, copiously spotted 

 with white. Wings, black and white. Tail 

 black, each feather tipped with white. As the 

 tail feathers are graduated, the middle pair 

 being the shortest and the outer pair the 

 longest, the tail, when closed, appears to be 

 barred with broad V-shaped black, and narrow 

 white, bars. Legs pale pink. Lower back and 

 rump white. 



Inhabits mountain streams, feeding on tiny- 

 insects which it picks off the boulders. Nest 

 often within a yard of the water's edge. 



Occurs on every hill stream in Kashmir and 

 the Western Himalayas, at places where the 

 water rushes down the hillside. 



78. Henicurus guttatus : The Eastern Spotted 

 Forktail. F. 631, J. 584, II, with tail 5^ inches 

 long. E. 



This is the East Himalayan race of the last 

 species. Jerdon (rightly in my opinion), does 

 not distinguish between the two. 



This is a trifle smaller than the western 

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