132 TFRDIDJE. 



Merula atrigularis (Temm.), Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 173; Seebokm, 

 Cat. B. M. v, p. 267. 



The Black-throated Thrush, Jerd. ; Mach-reycha, Beng. 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the lores, cheeks, 

 chin, throat, breast, and sides of the neck are black, each feather 

 with a broad white margin ; rest of the underparts white, the sides 

 of the body with ashy streaks ; under wing-coverts dull orange- 

 brown ; axillaries rufous-grey ; under tail-coverts dark brown tipped 

 with white ; ear-coverts, the whole upper plumage, and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings and tail greyish brown, the feathers 

 of the crown centred with dark brown. Soon after the moult the 

 white margins of the head, neck, and breast become reduced in 

 width, and are altogether lost by summer, causing the parts to 

 appear uniformly black. 



Female. Sides of the head and neck greyish brown like the upper 

 plumage ; chin and throat whitish streaked with dark brown ; 

 breast ashy brown spotted with black ; otherwise as the male. 



Legs and feet greyish browu ; bill blackish brown, dusky yellow 

 at base of lower mandible ; iris blackish brown {Butler). 



Length about 10 ; tail 3-8 ; wing 5'2 ; tarsus 1'3 ; bill from 

 gape 1. 



Distribution. A winter visitor to the Himalayas and the plains 

 of Upper India. This species extends throughout the Himalayas 

 from Hazara to Assam. In the plains it is found as far south as 

 Karachi, Cutch, Delhi, and Dacca. From Assam it ranges south 

 through the hill-tracts to Manipur. 



Jerdon speaks of this Ouzel as inhabiting the higher ranges of 

 the Himalayas in summer. This statement has received no confir- 

 mation since he made it ; but it is not improbably correct, as I have 

 seen a specimen killed at Simla on the 14th August and one killed 

 in Kashmir in May. The bulk of these Ouzels, however, if not 

 all, retire north to Siberia to breed. In winter they are found in 

 Central Asia and Afghanistan, but not to the east of Assam. 



' - >7 S . Merula unicolor. TiekelVs Ouzel. 



Turdus unicolor, Tick. J. A. S. B. ii, p. 577 (1833). 

 Petvocincla homochroa, Hodys. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Turdus dissiuiilis, Bhjth, J. A. 8. B. xvi, p. 144, part. (1847). 

 Geocichla dissimilis, Blyth, Cat. p. 163; Horsf. § M. Cat. i, p. 191. 

 Geocichla unicolor (Tick.), Blyth, Cat. p. 163; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 519; 



Hume Sf Headers. Lah. to Yark. p. 192 ; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 230; 



Ball, S. F. ii, p. 408, vii, p. 213 ; Hume, Cat. no. 356 ; Scully, 8. F. 



viii, p. 283 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 171. 

 Merula uuicolor (Tick.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. \, p. 271 ; Oates in 



Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 96. 

 The Dusky Ground-Thrush, Jerd. ; Desi pawai, Hind. ; Machasah, 

 Beng. ; Poda 2>alisa, Tel. 



Coloration. Male. The upper plumage, sides of head and neck, 

 and the visible portions of the closed wings and tail ashy grey ; 



