174 SIMALINZ. 
The Black-throated Thrush only occurs as a cold weather visi- 
tant to Northern Sind. I found it very common _— between 
Kandahar and Quetta during the time of its migration. 
Sus-FaAMILy, Simaline. 
Legs and feet stout and large ; bill various in form and length, 
almost always compressed, usually notched; wings short and 
rounded; tail largish, graduated; plumage often lax. 
Genus, Pyctorhis, Gmelin. 
Bill rather short, strong, deep, arched, entire ; rictus strongly 
bristled; orbits nude; wings rather short and feeble, fourth and 
fifth quills longest ; tail long, graduated ; legs and feet stout and 
large ; claws large, moderately curved. 
Pyctorhis sinensis, Gmelin. 
385.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 15; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IIL p. 471; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 399; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 132; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 67. 
THE YELLOW-EYED BABBLER, 
Length, 6:5 ; expanse, 7 to 7°8 ; wing, 2°4 to 2'8 ; tail, 3 to 3°5 ; 
bill at-front, 0°45 ; tarsus, 0°9 to 11. 
Bill black, with the nostrils deep yellow; irides dark brown, 
with an outer circle of buff; orbits bright orange ; legs yellow. 
Above clear red-brown, rufous or cinnamon color on the wings, 
and the tail obsoletely banded with dusky ; lores and all the, 
lower plumage white; lower surface of wings and tail dusky- 
cinereous. 
The Yellow-eyed Babbler is a common permanent resident 
throughout the district, breeding from June to August ; the nest 
is beautifully made, of a deep cup-shape, and is placed in a slender 
fork of a bush or small tree ; sometimes it is suspended between 
stalks of growing corn or reeds ; it is composed of grass, inter- 
laced with vegetable fibre and lined with fine grass; the eggs, 
four or five in number, vary much in shape, size and color but 
they are generally rather broad ovals, averaging 0°73 in length by 
about 0°59 inches in breadth. 
Some eggs have a pinkish-white ground, thickly mottled and 
speckled with bright deep brick-dust red ; others have the pinkish- 
white ground, but are boldly, though sparingly, blotched with 
patches and streaks of blood or bright brick-red, interspersed with 
a few inky-purple spots or clouds ; between these two types every 
variety is met with; the eggs are in general finely glossed. 
Pyctorhis griseigularis, Zume. 
386ter,—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 132. 
