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TURDIDvE. 



Length about 11 ; tail up to 6-2 ; wing 4-5 ; tarsus 1*15 ; bill 

 from gape T05. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree to Nepal at all eleva- 

 tions up to 12,000 feet. 



Habits, Sfc. Breeds from April to June, constructing a cup- 

 shaped nest, chiefly of moss, on a ledge of rock or at the root of a 

 tree, or on a bank near water, and laying four or five eggs, which 

 are greenish white marked with yellowish or reddish brown, and 

 measure about -96 by "72. 



631. Henicurus guttatus. The Eastern Spotted Forktail. 



Enicurus maculatus, Vig., Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 212 (part.). 



Enicurus guttatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 664 ; Hume, N. # E. 



p. 375 ; 'Oates, S. F. iii, p. 342. 

 Henicurus guttatus, Gould, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 29 ; Ehves, Ibis, 



1872, p. 261 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 399 ; id. Cat. no. 584 bis ; Sadly, 



S. F. viii, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii, p. 316; Oates, B. B. 



i, p. 26; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 227; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd 



ed. ii, p. 58. 

 Oony-sam ching-pho, Lepch. ; Chubia leka, Bliut. 



Coloration. Resembles H. maculatus. Differs in having the 

 white marks on the back fewer in number, small, and perfectly 

 round in shape, and in having the breast deep black without any 

 white fringes ; smaller in size. 



Length about 10 ; tail 5-3 ; wing 4 ; tarsus 1*2 ; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Distribution. Nepal ; Sikhim ; North Khasi hills ; Maui pur ; 

 Arrakan. I have seen a typical specimen of this species from 

 Mussoorie, but it is seldom that this bird occurs so far west. 



Habits, <$fc. Breeds in Sikhim from 2000 feet upwards in May 

 and June. The nest and eggs do not appear to differ from those 

 of H. maculatus. The eggs measure about "93 by - 68. 



632. Henicurus schistaceus. The Slaty-bached Fork-tail. 



Enicurus schistaceus, Hodgs. As. Pes. xix, p. 189 (1836); Blyth, 



Cat. p. 159 ; Ilorsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 346 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 214 ; 



Hume, N. # E. p. 376. 

 Henicurus schistaceus, Hodgs., Elwes, Ibis, 1872, p. 253 ; Godw.- 



Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 80 ; Hume $■ Ear. S. F. vi, p. 361 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 586 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 



vii, p. 315; Oates, B. B. i, p. 27; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 229 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 60. 



Coloration. A frontal band and the feathers immediately over 

 and behind the eye white ; lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, chin, upper 

 part of the throat, and the sides of the lower part black ; crown, 

 nape, sides of neck and back slaty blue ; lesser wing-coverts black, 

 margined with slaty black ; median coverts black ; greater coverts 

 black, tipped with white; scapulars slaty blue, tipped with white; 

 quills black, broadly white at base ; the secondaries and tertiaries 



