300 



366. Geocichla wardi, (Jerd) Seebohm, Cat. B t Br. Mus. v. 

 p. 178. Turdus wardi, Jerd. J. A. S. B. xi. p. 882. Merula wardi, 

 (Jerd.) Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 146. Cichloselys wardi, (Jerd.} Bp. 

 Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 5 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 231. Turdulus wardi, 

 (/m/.) Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 520, No. 357. Turdus (Cichloselys) wardi, 

 Brooks, Str. F. 1875 p. 237. Oreocincla pectoralis, Legge, Str. F. 1876, 

 p. 244 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 202. WARD'S PIED GROUND-THRUSH. 



Upper parts black ; whole head, neck, lores, chin, throat, breast and ear 

 coverts black ; wing coverts, innermost secondaries, upper tail coverts and 

 most of the tail feathers more or less conspicuously tipped with white ; quills 

 dark brown, their outer webs black and edged with white for some distance, 

 where they cease to be emarginated ; under surface white, the flanks with 

 broad subterminal irregularly crescentic black bands ; base of axillaries white, 

 terminally black ; bill and legs yellow ; irides brown ; supercilium white. 



Length. 8 to 9*6 inches; wing 4-6; tail 3-6; bill at front 075; culmen 

 ri. 



The female is olive brown above ; the supercilium and spots on the wing 

 coverts are fulvous white ; throat and breast brownish white. 



Hab. The Himalayas, wintering in the plains of India ; southwards as far 

 as Ceylon. Occurs in Southern India on the Neilgherries, also in the 

 Carnatic and Nepaul, the Punjab, and N. W. Provinces (Mussoorie, Nyneetal. 

 At Mussoorie Captain Hutton found the nest early in April. It breeds in June 

 and July, making a pretty nest of green mosses and fibres in the fork of trees. 

 The eggs are usually 4 in number, pale verditer, spotted with sanguine brown 

 Size 1*06 inches in length by 0*76 in breadth. It is very regular, somewhat 

 elongated, oval, only slightly compressed at one end. 



367. GeOCichla Sibirica,(^//.) Seebohm, Cat.B. Br.Mus.v.-p. 1 80 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 4. Turdus sibiricus, Pall., Reis. Russ. Reich, iii. 

 p. 694 ; Omel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 815 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 333 ; Tern. Man. 

 d'Orn. iii. p. 98; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 82; Seebohm, Ibis., 1879, p. 5^ 

 Oreocincla inframarginata, Blyth, J, A. S. B. xxix. p. 106 ; Beavan, Ibis., 

 1868, p. 132 ; Ball, Str. F. 1873, p. 70 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 94. Turdulus 

 davisoni, Hume, Str. F. v. pp. 63, 136. Turdulus sibiricus, Hume and Dav., 

 Str. F. vi. pp. 255, 513. The SIBERIAN GROUND-THRUSH. 



Male. The whole upper plumage, with the chin, throat, breast, flanks, sides 

 of the body and sides of the abdomen deep slaty grey, each feather margined 

 paler ; centre of the abdomen and vent white ; under tail coverts slaty, tipped 

 with white; axillaries white, tipped with slaty; lores and sides of the head 

 almost black ; a distinct white supercilium reaching to the nape ; quills dark 

 brown, all, except the first two, with a large white patch on the inner web ; 

 tail dark brown, the outer feathers tipped with white. 



