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 ZOOT1IKRA. lal 



704. Zoothera monticola. The Large Brown Thmsh. 



Zoothera monticola, Vigors P. Z. 8 f^^V^ATl 

 r.1 xxii ; Blyth, Cat. p. 160 ; Horsf. 8fM. Cat. i, p. l»£, .*'«• ^- 

 /if p. 509 ; y Stoliczka,J. A. S. B. xxxvh pt n , p. 33 ; &&•/•£ 

 S. B xli, pt. ii, p. 49; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. n, p. 72 , 

 7/«we, Cirf. no. 350. , ftl 



Geocichla monticola {Vig.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 101. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage dark slaty each feather 

 narrowly bat distinctly margined darker, giving a scaly appearance 

 to the feathers; forehead and crown tinged with rufous; wings 

 dark brown, the quills margined with fulvous-brown .and the 

 median and greater coverts tipped with ochraceou ; sides of the 

 head rufescent brown, with ochraceous shafts to the featheis 

 chin and middle of the throat white, each feather with a triangular 

 brown tip ; breast and sides of the throat dark oke-brown with 

 black subterminal spots, the feathers of the middle of t^ breast 

 with a good deal of fulvous at their centres ; abdomen white, irre- 

 gularly spotted and barred with brown; under ail-coyerts dark 

 o live-brown, broadly tipped white; sides of the body dark oliva- 

 ceous; axillaries basally white, then black and ^narrowly tipped 

 white ; under wing-coverts black, tipped white ; tail blackish, obso- 

 letely cross-barred, and the outer feathers paler. 



Fig. 40.— Head of Z. monticola. 



Legs and feet light brown; iris dark brown ; bill dark brown 



^Length between 11 and 12; tail 8-5; wing 5-5; tarsus 1-3; 



^iM^The Himalayas from the Sutlej valley to the 

 Daphla hills in Assam, where this bird is a permanent resident 

 up to 10,000 feet. 



705. Zoothera marginata. The Lesser Brown Thrush. 

 Zoothera nwginata^g JA^. *-^«<^i*£ 

 p/lOO; Hume $ Dav. 8. F. vi, p. 246; Hume, Cat. no. 350 bis ; 



