152 TTJBBIB7F. 



second and fifth nearly equal, and about 

 a quarter inch shorter than longest ; 



wing 55 O. dauma, p. 152. 



b". Third, fourth, and fifth quills equal and 

 longest ; second rather shorter than 

 sixth, and about half inch shorter than 



longest ; wing 5 O. nilgiriensis, p. 153. 



//. Ground-colour of lower plumage ochraceous 



buff O. irribricata, p. 151. 



/. Feathers of upper plumage plain without 

 darker margins or tips. 

 c . Lower plumage with black crescentic tips ; 

 wiug over 5. 

 c". Wing-coverts not tipped ; tail not ex- 

 ceeding 4 3 0. mollissima, p. 151. 



d". Wing-coverts tipped ; tail about 4 - 7 . . O. di.voni, p. 155. 

 d'. Lower plumage with black triangular 



spots ; wing about 4 O. spUoptera, p. 155. 



608. Oreocincla dauma. The Small-hilled Mountain-Thrash. 



Turdus dauma, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 362 (1790). 



Oreocincla dauma (Lath.), Bh/th, Cat. p. 160; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i. 



p. 193 ; Jerd. B. I. i, p. 533 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 236 ; Ball, S. F. 



ii, p. 408; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 115 ; id. fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 256 ; 



Ball. 8. F. vii, p. 213 ; Hume, Cat. no. 371 ; Oates in Hume's N. 



$ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 107. 

 Geocichla dauma {Lath.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 154 ; Oates, B. 



B. i, p. 0. 



Coloration. After the autumn moult the whole upper plumage 

 is ochraceous brown, each feather with a crescentic black bar at 

 the tip, preceded by a fulvous patch ; wing-coverts with large 

 bright fulvous tips, the median series blackish above the tips ; 

 primary-coverts black, with a broad band of fulvous on the outer 

 webs ; quills dark brown, margined on the outer web with fulvous ; 

 the four middle tail-feathers olive-brown, the next three pairs 

 blackish with white tips, the outermost feathers blackish, with the 

 terminal third fulvous ; sides of the head pale fulvous variegated 

 with black; chin, middle of throat, and middle of abdomen white; 

 remainder of lower plumage white, tinged with fulvous, each 

 feather with a terminal band of black, and with a subterminal 

 lighter patch ; under tail-coverts white, some of the feathers tipped 

 with black ; axillaries with basal half white and terminal half 

 black ; under wing-coverts black and terminally white. 



In summer the plumage becomes very dull, the fulvous parts 

 fading to olive-brown. 



Upper mandible and middle of lower dark brown, remainder of 

 bill pale brown, the gape tinged with orange; inside of mouth 

 yellowish ; eyelid and ocular region plumbeous ; iris dark hazel- 

 brown ; legs and claws fleshy white. 



Length about 10-5; tail 3'8 ; wing5-G; tarsus 1*3 ; bill from 

 gape 1*2. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Hazara and Kashmir to Assam, 



