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Gen. Artamides. 



Bill of moderate length, hooked and slightly notched ; the ctilmen curved ; 

 the base as wide nearly as in the Genus GraucaJns] rictal bristles well deve- 

 loped ; 4th quill longest, 3rd and 5th equal. 



181. Artamides Dobsoni, (Kail) Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iv. 

 p. 9. Graucalus Dobsoni, Ball. Str. F. i. p. 66; p. ii. 206. DOBSON'S 

 THRUSH-TIT. 



Point of the forehead, lores, a stripe under the eyes and the ear coverts 

 black ; whole of the front, top, and back of the head, back and sides of the 

 neck, scapulars and lesser wing coverts, rump and upper tail coverts an uniform 

 dark iron grey, slightly paler on the rump ; quills, greater and median coverts 

 dark hair brown, paler on the inner webs, every feather with a very narrow pale 

 edging, grey on the coverts, pale brown on the tips of the primaries and only 

 at all conspicuous on some of the primaries above the emarginations, and some 

 of the later secondaries towards their tips. Tail black, browner towards the 

 base, outer tail feathers pale brown on the outer webs and at the tip, which 

 again is narrowly tipped with white ; the next pair on either side tipped with 

 brownish white, and the 3rd pair with only a trace of this white tip. Chin, 

 throat, and upper breast pale iron grey ; lower breast, entire wing lining, 

 axillaries and entire lower parts white, narrowly, closely and strongly barred 

 with blackish brown. 



The female is like the male, but the point of the forehead is iron grey, not 

 black ; and the chin, throat and upper breast are barred like the under surface. 



The young have the whole chin, throat, and breast strongly tinged with ferru- 

 ginous; the tertiaries, secondaries and later primaries comparatively broadly 

 margined, and tipped with pale rufous or rufescent white ; the tertiaries and 

 later secondaries with also a rufous spot near the tips ; a faint rufous supercilium 

 from the nostrils over the eyes ; lores dusky with tiny white spots ; cheeks 

 dusky ; the feathers white shafted. Bill, legs and feet black ; irides crimson 

 lake, tinged with brownish in the young. 



Length. 11*5 to 12-25 inches ; wing 6 f i to 6-42 ; tail 5 to 6; bill at front 

 0-95 to i -06. (Hume.) 



Bab. The Andaman Islands ; probably also in Burmah. 



Mr. Davison says, " this species unlike G. macei is exclusively a forest bird, 

 never venturing out in the open fields ; it usually is seen in pairs keeping 

 moderately high up in trees ; its flight is weaker than that of G. macei and 

 undulating, seldom extended, except from branch to branch or from one tree 

 to another. It is not uncommon at Mount Harriet and other well-wooded 

 portions of the settlement." 



