11!) 

 C[TTOCI>~CLA. 



Cercotrichas macrurus (Gm.), Hu>no,X. % R p. 300; id. $ Dav. 



S F \\ d. 333: Hume, Cat. no. 47b. .. 



Cittocincla tricolol- (F**), *•* ^«rp«, Cat. B. M. w, p. 8o. 

 fiAomo, Hind. ; Pod* iwfanc^ roofer nafonett, Tel. 

 CoZorafion. Male. Head and neck all round breast back, sca- 

 nuhis "nd win-coverts glossy black ; rump and upper tail-co verts 

 £?^X four tail-feathers entirely black, he others 

 blacl at L base and then white ; quills, winglet and primary- 

 coverts dull black, with a slight gloss on ^Z°T\Z tuXs 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts bright chestnut; thighs 



W W, In the female, which resembles the ^^^ 

 bution of colours, all those parts are slaty brown which are DlacK 

 finale the bright chestnut parts of the male are pale rufous 

 £ the fetle, and tl quills and wing-coverts are narrowly edged 

 with rufous In other respects the sexes are alike. 



The young vary a good deal. The general colour of the upper 

 plumage s dark brown, the wing-coverts and some of he , ea he s 

 5 the Waek tipped with rufous ; the quills ™g^^^J 

 the lower plumage is chiefly pale rufous, ^^/^Xmage 

 the throat and breast. Young birds assume the adult plumage 

 very soon after they are fully fledged. throughout 



The coloration of this bird is very constant to type tlnougtioiw 

 the lar'e arelof its distribution/the only variation apparent 

 big in the darker coloration of some of the females in lenas- 



sernn. 



Bui black; legs pale flesh-colour; claws light ^n-colour ; 

 mouth flesh-colour ; eyelids plumbeous j ms darl brown. 



Length about 11 ; tail about 6 ; wing 3-/ ; tarsus l i , wu 

 gape 95 ; the female has the tail about one inch shorter than the 



^Distribution Ceylon ; the hills along the western coast of India 



in the Hume Collection, and it may be more widely ^spread over 

 India proper than the above localities indicate .Tins bid a 

 permanent resident, and does not ascend the hills to any grean 



^IJalits Src Frequents thick jungle and is very shy ; a most 

 exS'stngsL? breeds from W to ^^-g- 

 of leaves and grass &c. in a hole of a tree at no great neig n ;m> 

 1 giwnd, and laying four eggs, which are very simdar in colout 

 to those of Copsychus mularis, and measure about 8fl by .b~ 



