on Dr. Jerdon^s ' Birds of India.' 375 



perhaps sometimes stray iuto Afghanistan. lu Lower Bengal 

 it is not uncommon as a cold-weather visitant. 



357. TURDULUS WARDI. 



To this subgroup must also be referred Tardus interpres, 

 Temm. (PL Col. 432 ; T. avensis. Gray), which is nearly allied to 

 T. wardi, but has a chestnut-rufous cap and nape ; from Lombok 

 (Wallace), and Sumatra and Java (Temminck). Also Geocichla 

 erythronota, Sclater (Ibis, 1859, p. 113), from Celebes, like T. 

 interpres, but having the whole back, as well as the head, 

 chestnut-rufous. Also T. peroni, Vieillot (Pucheran, Arch, du 

 Museum, vii. p. 352, pi. xix.) ; Geocichla ruhiginosa, MUller, 

 from Timor. Also T. cordis (PI. Col. 518; Faun. Japon., Aves, 

 tab. xxix., XXX.). The remarl^ble dissimilarity of the sexes in 

 T. wardi and T. cadis should indicate a corresponding diversity 

 of plumage in those of their immediate congeners. 



358. TuRDULUS CHRYSOLAUs (Temm. PI. Col. 587 ; Faun. 

 Japon., Aves, tab. xxviii.). 



This species, my Geocichla dissimilis (olim), is not T. cardis. 

 It cannot be placed in a different division from T. unicolor 

 and other Geocichlce. I remember sending a coloured drawing 

 of the specimen shot in the Calcutta Botanic Garden to Sir W. 

 Jardine. When Col. Tytler wrote, in his " Fauna of Barrack- 

 poore" (Ann. &Mag. N. H. 1854, xiii. p. 370), of G. dissimilis 

 that it is " often found in groves of trees : it is very singular 

 that, out of the numbers shot, a male is seldom or never pro- 

 cured; this latter, when in fine adult plumage, is distinguished 

 from the sombre colour of the female by the bright reddish 

 streaks [colour ?] on its flanks," he supposed the female of G. 

 unicolor to be that of G. dissimilis (G. chnjsolaus), concerning 

 which latter he wrote from memory of the single specimen he 

 had seen in the Calcutta Museum. 



361, 362, 363. Merula eoulboul *, M. albocincta, and 

 M. castanea; Gould, B. As. pt. xi. pis. 



M. vulgaris is mentioned by Dr. A. L. Adams as '^a common 



* Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1864, p. 351) would seem to refer tlie Lanius 

 houlhoul, of Latham, to a species of Laniarius. 



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