LESSER WHITE CROWNED THRUSH. 285 



Independent of the great difference in the sizes 

 of this and the last, the present species may be 

 known by the back and wing-covers being dark 

 cinereous instead of brown, by the white of the 

 crown being confined to a stripe down its centre, 

 and by the rufous of the throat being extended 

 round the back of the neck, so as to form a nuchal 

 collar, which borders the termination of the black 

 and white on the head ; there is also no brown on 

 the chin, and the sides of the head and ears are deep 

 black, instead of brown. The wings only reach as 

 far as the upper tail- covers ; the bill is black, and 

 the feet dark brown. 



This species measures from seven inches and a 

 quarter to seven and three-quarters, according to the 

 greater or less contraction of the neck. On each 

 side of the head is a broad stripe of black, which com- 

 mences in front of the head at the nostrils, and ex- 

 tends to the nape, it includes not only the ears but 

 the eye, which is placed nearly in the middle of it ; 

 following this, and in the centre of the crown, is a 

 white stripe which terminates at the nape, but which 

 leaves a black space between it and the eye ; these 

 stripes are cut off, as it were, from the grey colour of 

 the back, by a collar formed by a continuation of the 

 rufous on the neck. The back, wing-covers, and 

 edges of the quills are deep cinereous, which colour 

 graduates into buff-orange on the upper tail-covers. 

 The whole of the under plumage, from the chin 

 downwards, is bright and uniform buff-orange or 

 orange-rufous, and the lateral tail-feathers are the 



