Mr. R. F. Tomes on White's Thrmh. 381 



An examination of the specimen when obtained gave the 

 following results. 



The tail-feathers are fourteen in number; the two central 

 ones the shortest, the next pair of nearly equal length with the 

 outer pair, and the remaining ones, viz. four on each side, 

 nearly equal in length and the longest. The outer one has its 

 root dusky, more extended on the inner than on the outer web : 

 middle part greyish, tinged with yellow ; the tip white, less 

 distinct on the outer than on the inner web. Second feather 

 similar but darker, and less grey, with the dusky part almost 

 black, and reaching to two-thirds of its length. Third one 

 with the dark part extended almost to the white tip, leaving 

 only a small space of yellow-brown on the outer web, but 

 having some of that colour at the root on that web. Fourth 

 with the same patch of yellowish at the base, but reaching for 

 more than half its length ; whilst that which was reduced to a 

 small space on the third near its tip, is in this one quite lost. 

 Fifth, similar to the fourth, but the yellow-brown extended to 

 fully three-fourths of its length. Six and seventh wholly yellow- 

 brown, faintly barred on both webs with darker brown. All 

 the white tips decreasing in size from the outer to the inner 

 feathers, on which they are almost obsolete *. 



First quill short and rudimentary. Of those which really 

 compose the end of the wing, the first and fourth are nearly 

 equal, and the second and third also nearly equal in length and 

 the longest in the wing — longer by four or five lines than the 

 first and fourth. The wing, in its structure, does not differ 

 much from that of the Fieldfare, Song-thrush, Ring-ousel, or 

 Missel-thrush, the relative length of the quills being pretty 

 similar. Closed wings with their ends extending to within two 

 inches of the end of the tail. 



Irides very dark brown, almost black. Upper mandible 

 uniform dark brown; lower one similar, but yellowish towards 

 and at the base. Legs and feet pale yellowish-brown ; claws the 

 same, but paler. Weight 93| drachms. 



* The late Prince C. L. Bonaparte, iu his monograph of the genus 

 Oreocincla, distinguishes this species from all the others thus : — " Cauda 

 rectricibus 14, vuriegatn." 



