294 TURDIN/E. 



as given by Seebohm in the Vth Vol. of the British Museum Catalogue are 

 briefly these: "basal portion of the outside web of all the secondaries and of 

 many of the primaries white, occasionally tinted with buff, but abruptly de- 

 fined from the brown of the rest of the quills. Axillaries parti-coloured, the 

 basal half white, the terminal half black, slaty grey or brown ; under wing 

 coverts the same, the basal portion, however, being black and the terminal half 

 white. Young generally spotted on the back and breast. Bill moderately 

 stout, somewhat wide at base, gently arched throughout, and moderately hooked 

 at the tip ; rictal bristles more or less developed ; wing more or less rounded ; 

 tail of 12 to 14 feathers (14 in three species only); toes long; plumage 

 generally soft and silky, usually mottled above and spotted beneath, and dull 

 blue and ferruginous in colour. Peculiar to the Indian region." 



Twelve tail feathers. 



358. GeOCichla dauma, (Lath.) Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vol. v. 

 p. 154; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 6. Turdus dauma, Lath., Jnd. Orn. i. 

 p. 362. Oreocincla dauma, Jerd. B. Jnd. i. p. 533 ; Plume, Nests and Eggs y 

 Jnd. B. p. 236; Ball* Sir. F. ii. p. 408; Plume, Str. F. iii. p. 115 ; Wald. 

 in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 100; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 256 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. viii. p. 94; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 178. The HIMALAYAN GROUND- 

 THRUSH. 



The plumage of the body above rich olive, each feather tipped black with 

 an interior pale fulvous spot ; scapulars the same, the black tipping larger and 

 extending more on the inner than on the outer web ; wing coverts dark brown 

 or blackish brown, tipped with large fulvous spots ; greater coverts to primaries 

 blackish brown ; the central portion of the outer webs tawny ; quills brown, 

 their outer webs suffused with tawny fulvous, the tertials partly tipped with the 

 same ; base of under webs fulvous white ; central two pairs of tail feathers olive 

 brown, the next two pairs tipped with white, the outer pair brown on basal half, 

 whitish brown terminally, and margined with pale olive brown on the outer web ; 

 lores brown, shafted and tipped with white ; cheeks and ear coverts white, ter- 

 minated by black tips and with subterminal fulvous marks ; chin white ; throat 

 and breast white, terminally fulvous and tipped with black crescentic marks ; 

 belly and flanks white, with subterminal fulvous spots and black tips ; the centre 

 of the abdomen pure white, also the under tail coverts, a few of the feathers of 

 which are obsoletely tipped with brown ; under wing coverts white, with abroad 

 black band across the middle ; thighs white, barred with brown ; bill pale 

 brown, the upper mandible and centre of lower dark brown ; irides dark hazel 

 brown ; legs and claws fleshy white ; 3rd and 4th primaries nearly equal and 

 longest, the second generally half an inch longer than the sixth. 



Length. 10-4 to lo'S - inches; wing 5-5 to 5'6 ; tail 375103*8; bill at 

 gape 1-2; culmen ro to PI. 



