514 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



Lesson has a Petrocincla castaneocollis, from the Himalayas, which 

 I cannot identify ; so add a brief description taken from the llevue 

 Zoologique, 1840. 



Male, above undulated with brown, black and grey ; the upper 

 tail-coverts ferruginous ; cheeks black ; fore-part of the neck, from 

 the chin, maronne-red : lower neck and breast whitish ; flanks 

 and belly ferruginous ; tail and wings brownish. The female is 

 brownish above, beneath whitish-grey, with slight brown undula- 

 tions. 



This may be a state of Grocetes erythrogaster ; but it does not 

 sufficiently correspond. 



There are no other recorded species of Petrocossyplius besides 

 those mentioned here. 



Gen, Orocetes, Gray. 



Syn. Petrophila, Swains. 



Cliar. — Bill moderately short, straight, tolerably curved at the 

 tip, which is entire ; nostrils overhung by a few nareal bristles ; 

 rictal bristles longer and stronger than in the last genus ; wings 

 somewhat short ; 3rd quill longest, 2nd sub-equal to it ; tail even 

 or slightly rounded ; tarsus and toes a little shorter than in PetrO' 

 cossyphus ; tarsal scutse indistinct ; lateral toes unequal. 



This genus was instituted by Swainson for the Petrocincla 

 cinclorhynclia of Vigors ; which, as Mr. Blyth remarks, is of a 

 more Chat-like form than the last birds, and approximates Turdus 

 saxatilis of Europe. The following species, described and figured 

 as a Petrocincla, is rightly placed in this genus by Bonaparte. 



352. Orocetes erythrogastra, Vigors. 



Petrocincla apud Vigors— Gould, Cent. Him. B., pi. 13 — Blyth, 

 Cat. 959 — HoRSF., Cat. 252 — P. rufiventris, Jard. and Selby, 

 111. Orn., pi. 129 — P. ferrugineoventris, Lesson — Ningri-pho 

 Lepch. 



The Chesnut-bellied Thrush. 

 Descr. — Head above, shoulders, and rump, bright light blue; back 

 and wings duller blue, often more or less edged with whitish or 



