172 TURDIN&. 
THE Dusky GRrouND THRUSH. 
Length, 9; expanse, 145; wing, 45; tail, 3:13; tarsus, 1°12 ; 
bill at front, 0°7. 
Bill dusky-yellow; eyelids and gape yellow; irides brown; 
legs yellowish-brown. 
Male above uniform dusky slaty ash-color; chin nearly white ; 
throat pale-ashy; breast ashy; abdomen and lower tail-coverts 
white ; under wing-coverts and flanks of abdomen ferruginous. 
The female is olive-brown above, ashy about the rump; ear- 
coverts ashy-brown, with light shafts; beneath the chin and throat 
albescent or very pale-ashy, bordered by a dark stripe from the base 
of the lower mandible, and the feathers of the throat and neck 
streaked with dusky-brown; the breast and sides ashy-brown, 
tinged with fulvous, or olive-brown on the flanks; belly, vent, 
and lower tail-coverts, white. 
Occurs throughout the district as a rather rare cold weather 
visitant. 
Genus, Turdulus, Hodgson. 
Bill rather short, something like that of Geocichla, generally 
yellow ; tarsus rather short. Males colored black, and white ; 
females dingy-olive or brown. Otherwise as in Merula. 
Turdulus wardi, Jerd. 
357.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 520; Butler, Guzerat; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 399. 
WARD'S PIED BLACKBIRD. | 
Length, 8°5 to 9 ; wing, 4°6; tail, 3-4; tarsus, 12; bill at front, 
0°75. 
Bill yellow; irides brown; legs yellow. 
Male, above with the whole head and neck, black ; eye-streak, 
a patch on the shoulders of the wings, tips of all the coverts, 
especially the medial-coverts white; tertiaries and secondaries 
also tipped white, the latter slightly, and the primaries narrowly 
edged with the same; upper tail-coverts also tipped ; tail with 
the central tail-feathers slightly white tipped, the rest of the . 
feathers successively more broadly so, but chiefly on the inner 
webs, and increasing in amount to the outermost, which has 
the inner web white for two-thirds of its length; the web black 
nearly to the tip. 
The female is pale-brownish above ; the eye-streak, tips of the 
wing-coverts and of the tertiaries, fulvous-white ; upper _ tail- 
coverts and tips of the tail-feathers, whitish ; beneath fulvous- 
* white, variegated with dusky; under tail-coverts pure white; 
the feathers of the throat, breast and flanks, with dusky spots ; 
axillaries pure white. 
The occurrence of Ward’s Blackbird within our limits is very 
doubtful. 
Major Lloyd includes it in his list of the Birds of the Concan. 
