130 TUBDID^. 



675. Merula ruficollis. The Red-throated Ouzel. 



Tardus ruficollis, Pall. Rids. Russ. Reichs. iii, p. 694 (1776) ; Blyth> 

 Cat. p. 161 ; Mors/. Sr M. Cat. i, p. 194 ; Hume, Cat. no. 364 ; 

 Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 53 ; Hume, S. F. ix, p. 318, xi, p. 129. 



Planesticus ruficollis (Pall.), Jercl. B. I. i, p. 528 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. 

 S. R. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 102. 



Merula ruficollis (Pall.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 269. 



Turclus kyemalis (Dyboivski), apud Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, p. 271. 



The Red-tailed Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage ashy brown, the 

 shafts of the feathers of the crown dark ; wings dark brown, the 

 outer webs suffused with ashy brown ; tail chestnut, the terminal 

 half or third of the middle pair of feathers brown, the others suc- 

 cessively with less black at the tip ; a narrow pale chestnut super- 

 cilium ; lores and ear-coverts ashy brown; cheeks, chin, throat, 

 breast, and sides of the neck chestnut, the feathers of these parts 

 immediately after the autumn moult very narrowly margined with 

 white, and all but the very oldest birds with a row of black spots 

 down each side of the throat ; remaining lower plumage white, the 

 sides of the body mottled with brown ; under tail-coverts chestnut 

 at base ; axillaries and under wing-coverts orauge-brown. 



Female. Resembles the male, but has the chestnut of the lower 

 parts much paler, and the breast spotted with black. In very old 

 females, however, these spots disappear, and the sexes are then 

 very closely alike. 



Tarsi greyish fleshy ; feet fleshy brown ; upper mandible and tip 

 of lower brown, rest of lower mandible, gape, and margins of 

 upper mandible, except at tip, dull yellow ; iris hazel (Hume). 



Length about 10 ; tail 4 ; wiug 5*4 ; tarsus 1*3 ; bill from 

 gape 1*1. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to the Himalayas from Kashmir to 

 Assam. This species has also been observed in winter at Groalpara 

 in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, the Khasi hills, and Mauipur. 



In winter this Ouzel occurs on the west in Afghanistan, and on 

 the east in China. It summers in Siberia and Central Asia. 



676. Merula bonlhoul. The Grey-winged Ouzel. 



Lanius boulboul, Lath. Ind, Orn. \, p. 80 (1790). 



Tardus pcecilopterus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 54; Gould, Cent. 

 pi. xiv. 



Merula boulboul (Lath.), Bhjth, Cat. p. 162 ; Horsf. # M. Cat. i, 

 p. 196 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 525 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, 

 p. 35 ; mime, N. $ E. p. 234 ; id. Cat. uo. 361 ; Scully, S. F. viii, 

 p. 285 ; Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 248 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 128 ; 

 Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 93. 

 The Grey-ioinyed Blackbird, J erd. ; Kasluri, Hind. ; Patariya masaicha, 

 Beng. ; Phoyiong pho, Lepck. ; Chomam, Bhut. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage, wings and tail, 



