134 Dr. T. C. Jerdon's Supplementary Notes 



This bird is very generally found in the N.W. Himalayas, 

 near streams and marshy spots, especially in winter. 



Blyth remarks that Zoothera is merely a highly developed 

 Oreocincla, and that Turdulus ivardi and Turdus neelgherriensis 

 have both been named as Zootherce by different authors. 



Dr. Stoliczka recognizes Petrocincla castaneocollis, Lesson, 

 mentioned p. 514, from the Himalayas, as a state of plumage of 

 Petrocincla saxatilis of Europe. He obtained it at Dras, in 

 Western Thibet, in September ; and it will therefore hardly 

 enter our limits unless hereafter found elsewhere, which may 

 well happen in winter. 



352. Orocetes erythrogastra. 



Figured by Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. xv. pi. 11. 



The egg is figured by Hodgson, and, says Blyth, resembles 

 that of a Robin. Brooks says that its song is loud, sweet, and 

 varied, hardly inferior to that of Turdus musicus. 



353. Orocetes cinclorhynchus. 



One measured in the flesh was 7j inches in length, extent 12^, 

 tarsus |-. Bill black, bright yellow at the gape. In summer 

 the back becomes wholly black. Blanford found that it had 

 partaken of ants and Coleoptera ; and I have also observed 

 more recently that insects form its food more generally than 

 fruit. 



Brooks describes its song as soft and mellow, and its note of 

 alarm very Chat-like. This excellent observer has noticed a nest 

 which he presumed to be that of this bird, in a hole of an old 

 wall in Kumaon. It was formed of roots, twigs, and grass, and 

 contained four eggs, pale buff or salmon-colour, finely mottled, 

 chiefly at the large end, with very pale reddish brown. 



Another species of this genus is Orocetes gularis, Swiuhoc, 

 Ibis, 1863, pi. 3, from China. 



355. Geocichla citrina. 



This is Turdus albonotatus of Cuvier, fide Pucheran. 



Swinhoe notices that the feathers of the rump of Geocichla 

 are spinous. Blanford doubts the olive-coloured specimens 

 being adult females ; but Hume supports the view I had taken. 



