2. poLiopsAS. 49 



Malabar Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 30 (1783). 



Turdus malabaricus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 816 (1788). 



Acridotheres malabaricus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 691 



(181^3). 

 ? Gracula cinerea, Less. Traite, p. 402 (1831). 

 Maina affinis, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 771 (1836). 

 Pastor pag'odarum («ec Gm.), McClell. P. Z. S. 1839, p. 163 ; 



Blyth ^- Wald. B. Bunn. p. 90 (1875) ; Hume ^- Davison, Str. F. 



vi. p. 389 (1878) ; Ball, Str. F. \n. p. 221 (1878) ; Cripj.s, f. c. 



p. 292 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 106 ; Vidal, Sir. F. 1880, p. 71 ; 



Beid, Str. F. 1881, p. 53 ; Davidson, Str. F. 1882, p. 312 ; Davison, 



Str.F. 1883, p. 401; Gates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 387 (1883); 



Taijlor, Str. F. 1887, p. 462 ; Salvud. Ann. Miis. Genov. (2) iv. 



p. 606 (1887). 

 Pastor cinereus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 23 (1840). 

 Sturnia malabarica, Blyth, J. A. S. A'wy. xiii. p. 363 (1844); id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 110 (1849) ; Tytler, Ann. 8r Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (2) xiii. p. 308 (1«54) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 265 (1888). 

 Pastor malabaricus, Jei-d. Madr. Jovi-n. xiii. p. 133 (1844). 

 Pastor caniceps, Hodgs. Icoti. ined. in Brit. Alus., Passeres, pis. 271, 



271* (no. 271-2) ; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 

 Pastor blythii (nee Jerd.), Gray, Cat. Maimn. etc. Nepalpres. Hodgs. 



p. 104 (1846). 

 Hetairornis malabaricus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 335 (1847) ; Bp. Consp, 



1. p. 419 (1850). 

 Temenuchus malabaricus, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 204 (1850); 



Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 5.30 (1854) ; Blxjth, 



J. A. S. Beng. xxxix. p. 342, note (1862) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 330 



(1863) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 171 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1809, p. 59 ; 



Bulger, t. c. p 169 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 26, no. 6293 (1870) ; 



Hume, Nests ^- Fg(/s Ind. B. p. 4.33 (1873); Ball, Str. F. 1874, 



p. 419 ; Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 494 ; Armstr. Str. F. 1876, p. 332 ; 



Hume, t. c. p. 402 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 38 ; Butler, t. e. p. 230 ; 



Anderson, Rep. Zool. Yunnan Ejped. p. 596 (1878) ; Scully, Str, 



F. 1879, p. 330. 

 Poliopsar malabaricus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 476. 

 Sturnia nemoricola, Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 266 (1888). 



Adult male. General colour above ashj* grey, everywhere washed 

 with rosy brown, with which colour the feathers are edged ; scapu- 

 lars like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts slightly 

 more ashy than the back ; wing-coverts blackish, externally ashy 

 grey ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externally 

 edged with purplish black and broadly tipped with ashy grey, the 

 secondaries being likewise edged with this colour, the inner ones 

 entirely ashy grey ; centre tail-feathers ashy grey, the remainder 

 blackish, edged with ashy grey and broadly tipped with chestnut, 

 increasing towards the outermost ; head and neck niddy brown, 

 with ashy -grey centres to the feathers ; lores and sides of iace also 

 ruddy brown, the ear-coverts rather more dingy ash-colour : cheeks, 

 chin, and throat delicate ashj-, with reddish edges to the feathers ; 

 fore neck reddish brown, streaked with ashy ; remainder of under 

 surface reddish brown or deep cinnamon ; thighs ash}' ; under tail- 

 coverts cinnamon, the longer ones white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ashy with a slight ruddy tinge, those near tha base of the 



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