SAXICOLINAE. 197 
exposed basal; wings moderate, fourth and fifth quills longest, 
third nearly equal to them; tail rather long, graduated, or with 
the six central feathers equal, the outer ones graduated ; tarsus 
moderately long, stout, nearly entire; feet moderate ; middle-toe 
long ; hind-toe and claw moderate ; claws slightly curved. 
Copsychus saularis, Lin. 
475.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 115; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 474; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 404; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 187; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 124. 
THE MacpiE Rosin. 
Length, 7°75 to 85; expanse, 11°5; wing, 3'8 to 4; tail, 3:25 ; 
tarsus, 1:12; bill at front, 0°68. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
Head, neck, breast, body above, and wings, black, glossed blue 
on all parts except the wings; abdomen, vent and under tail- 
coverts, white; the four outer tail-feathers on each side white. 
The female is duller black than the males and somewhat 
ashy on the breast. 
The young birds have the breast dusky with ruddy spots, 
the upper surface olive-brown turning to slaty. 
The Magpie Robin is distributed generally throughout the 
district, common in parts of the Deccan, very common in 
Western Rajputana, and not uncommon in Guzerat. In Smd 
it occurs but rarely. 
I do not think that any remain to breed in Guzerat, but at 
Poona, at Mhow, and again in Neemuch, I found them breeding 
plentifully during May, June and July. The nest is generally 
in a hole in a tree sometimes at a considerable height from the 
ground, but generally not more than eight or ten feet. 
The nest is saucer-shaped, sometimes only a mere pad, and 
is composed of grass roots, fibres, feathers, &c. The eggs, four 
or five in number, are typically oval in shape ; the ground color 
is subject to considerable variation. 
In some it is greenish or pale-greenish blue, in others greenish- 
white, or even pale sea-green, streaked and blotched with different 
shades of reddish-brown, most densely so at the larger end. 
They average 0°87 inches in length by 0°66 in breadth. 
Genus, Kittacincla, Gould. 
(Cercotrichas.) 
Bill more slender than in the last; tail very long, graduated ; 
wings slightly more rounded; tarsus slender, pale; lateral toes 
very short. 
Kittacincla (Cercotrichas) macroura, Gmelin. 
476.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 116; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 404. 
