64 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 
it is larger, being nearly a foot long. The male is black 
all over, except for a large patch of silver-grey on the 
wings ; his bill is orange-red, and his legs dull orange- 
brown. The hen is dull dark brown, with a buff patch 
on the wings, corresponding to the grey one in the male; 
her bill and legs are duller than his. The young birds. 
are, I believe, brown with buff spots, like young English 
Blackbirds. 
The Grey-winged Blackbird *is found all along the 
Himalayas, and extends to Manipur; it ranges up to eight 
thousand feet in summer, descending in winter even to 
the plains. It breeds from April to August, laying four 
green eggs speckled with brown in a nest placed in a 
hollow or ledge, and made of moss and leaves, for it does 
not use mud like the English bird. 
It has a fine song, and will live in captivity in the 
plains, but I have not seen many of these birds caged. 
THE ORANGE-HEADED GrRouND-TuHRUSH (Geocichla ci- 
trina) called Dama in Bengal, is about nine inches long, 
having a tail rather shorter than most Thrushes. It is 
a strikingly coloured bird, the male being orange-chestnut 
on the head, neck, and breast, and French grey on the 
back, wings and tail, with a white belly and a small white 
patch on the wing. The hen is olive-coloured where the 
cock is grey, and the orange of her plumage is less rich. 
The bill is black, and the legs flesh-coloured. 
This bird is widely spread over the Empire, breeding 
in the Himalayas up to six thousand feet, and distribut- 
ing itself over the plains in winter ; in Burma it is more 
abundant and less inclined to undertake even this small 
