HIYIOTIIERIN^. 509 



riffmity for Antltocincla, Blytli, a remarkable new bird from Bur- 

 mah, has decided me to place it at the end of this family.* 



350. Zoothera monticola, Yigoes. 



Gould, Cent. H. B., pi. 22— Blyth, Cat. 928— Horsf., Cat. 

 263 — Turdus rostratus, Hodgsox. 



The Large Brown Thrush. 



Descr. — Above, dark olive-brown, tincred with dtisky-cinerous, 

 browner on the wings, and the feathers faintly edged darker ; be- 

 neath, chin and throat white ; sides of the neck olive-brown, with 

 dark centres to the featliers, tending to become white, with dark 

 spots, on the centre of the breast ; middle of the abdomen, vent and 

 under tail-coverts, white, with olive-brown specks; flanks and thioh- 

 coverts tinged with pale-ashy. 



Bill horny-brown ; legs pale brown, irides dark brown. Length 

 varies from 10 to 12 inches ; wing from 5^ to G ; tail 3 to 3^ ; bill 

 at front 1|^ to 1^ ; tarsus 1^ to 1^. 



This remarkable bird is found all through the Himalayan range, 

 from Mussooree to Darjeeling, but nothing is known of its manners. 

 The bill occasionally becomes unusually long, as in a specimen in 

 the Asiatic Society's IMuseum. The coloring reminds the naturalist 

 of many of the true Ant-Thrushes of S. America. 



Blyth has described another species, Z. marginata, from the Khasia 

 hills and Arracan; and Layard another from Ceylon, Z. imbricata. 

 Myiotliera andromeda, Temm., from Java and Sumatra, appears, 

 from the figure, in PL Col. 392, to be rightly placed as a Zoothera 

 by Plartlaub and Bonaparte. 



The remainder of the family of short winged Thrushes consists 

 chiefly of the so-called Ant-Thrushes of S. America, Formicarius, 

 Formicivorn, Grallaria, Mijiotliera, &:c., of authors. They are 

 mostly small birds of brown and spotted plumage, as arc the Wrens 

 and allied birds, such as Merulawis, Scytalopns, Thriothoi'us, &c., 

 which also enter this family. Gray includes among his Formicarhife, 

 several Malayan genera, which are more generally assigned to 

 the Timaline group, such as Malacopteron, Alcippe, Trichastoma, 



* Since the above was in type, I have obtained the egg of Zoothera marginata, 

 like tiiat of I'ilta, white, with a few rusty brown spots. 



