TURDIN&. 169 
Pitta brachyura, Lin. 
345.—Pitta bengalensis, Gmel_—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, 
p. 503 ; P. coronata, Mull; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, 
Vol. III, p. 470; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 398. 
THE YELLOW-BREASTED GROUND THRUSH. 
Nouwrang, Hin. 
Length, 7; wing, 4°25 ; tail, 1:7; tarsus, 15; bill at front, 0°6. 
Bill black ; irides hazel-brown ; legs yellowish-pink. 
Head olivaceous-fulvous, with a median black stripe from the 
base of bill to the back of the neck, meeting another black band 
that passes through the ears ; a white superciliary line extending 
also to the nape, but not quite meeting its fellow ; the whole back, 
rump, scapulars and wing-coverts, dull blue-green ; the lengthened 
upper tail-coverts pale-blue; a pale azure-blue patch on the 
shoulder of the wing; quills black, with a white bar on the first six 
primaries, and the tip of all white or albescent ; secondaries blue- 
green on the outer margin, increasing in extent inwardly ; tail 
black, tipped with dull-blue ; beneath, the chin, throat, and the 
sides of the neck below the ears, white; the rest of the lower 
parts isabelline or fulvescent, with the middle of the lower part of 
the abdomen, the vent, and the under tail-coverts, scarlet. 
The Yellow-breasted Ground Thrush is not uncommon in the 
Deccan, during the seasons of migration, viz., April and May, and 
again in September and October ; it also occurs at Mount Aboo, 
about the same time, and has not unfrequently been obtained at 
and near Deesa. 
It has not been recorded from Sind. 
SuB-FAMILY, Turdine. 
Bill of moderate length, as long as head ; nostrils in a groove 
apert ; wings long and broad, somewhat pointed ; first quill very 
short; third and fourth longest, sub-equal ; tail moderate ; outer- 
toe longer than inner, and united to middle at base. 
Genus, Monticola. 
Bill moderate or long, moderately hooked at tip ; nostrils apert ; 
rictal bristles numerous; wings long; third quill longest; tarsus 
scutellate. 
Monticola cyaneus, Lin. 
351.—Petrocossyphus cyaneus, Lin.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 511; Cyanocinela cyana, Lin. ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray 
Feathers, Vol. III, p. 470; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 398 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 129; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 67. 
THe BLUE Rock THRUSH. 
Length, 8°5 to 9; expanse, 13 to 14°5 ; wing, 45 to 5; tail, 3-1 
to 3°8; bill at front, 0°7 to 0°9 ; bill from gape, 1:25. 
