312 TURDIN^E. 



385. MontiCOla CyamiS, Linn, Syst. Nat. i. p. 296 ; GmeL, Sys/. 

 Nat. i. p. 834 ; Lath. hid. Orn. i. p. 345. Monticola cyana, (Linn.) Boie, 

 Ibis, 1822, p. 552; Shelley, Birds of Egypt, p. 70; Elf* Eastern Persia, ii. 

 p. 155. Petrocossyphus cyaneus, (Linn.) Boie, Ibis, 1828 ; Jerd. B. Jnd. 

 i. p. 511, No. 351 ; ///. Ind. Orn. p. 20; Hume and Senders., Lahore to 

 Yarkand, p. 190 ; HeugL, Syst. Uebers. p. 29 ; Sharpe and Dresser, B. Eur. ; 

 Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, fyc., Si?id. Cyanocincla cyanus (Linn.), Sir. F. 1874, 

 p. 407 ; vol. vi. p. 247 ; id. iii. p. 1 12. The BLUE ROCK THRUSH. 



Male Head, neck, and back indigo blue, with a faint metallic lustre on 

 the head ; lores dusky greyish ; wings, their coverts and tail dark brown ; the 

 outer webs of the feathers indigo blue ; under surface of body cobalt blue ; 

 the abdomen and the under tail coverts with faint streaks and spots of whitish. 



Female. Of a dingy brown, scarcely tinged above with indigo or cobalt 

 Hue ; some of the feathers edged whitish ; under parts fulvous with dusky 

 transverse bars, including the under tail coverts ; bill black ; legs black ; 

 irides brown. 



Length. 8*5 to 9 inches ; wing 4-5 to 5 ; tail 375 to 45 bill at front nearly 

 one inch. 



Hab. Southern Europe, North Africa, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, 

 wintering throughout the peninsula of India. Recorded from all India, 

 Tenasserim, Cashmere, Nepaul, and North-West Himalayas. Extremely 

 common in the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, Sambhur, 

 and North Guzerat, also in South India. Frequents gardens, pagodas, &c. 

 Breeds in the Himalayas, laying 4 eggs, pale blue, spotted with brown ; has a 

 fine gloss; size 1-0x073 inches. 



386, Monticola cinclorhynchus, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 172. 



Petrophila cinclorhyncha, ( Vig.) Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 252 ; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 227. Orocetes cinclorhynchus, (Vig). Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 297 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 515 ; Seebohm, Cat. Passerif. B. Museum, vol. v. 

 p. 320; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, $-c. Sind., p. 140; Str. F. vol. iv. 398, 

 The BLUE-HEADED CHAT THRUSH. 



Male. Head, nape, chin, upper throat, and cheeks indigo or cobalt blue, 

 also the lesser wing coverts ; lores, ear coverts, sides of neck, back, and 

 scapulars black tinged with dusky blue on the back ; primaries, their coverts, 

 and greater and median coverts edged with bluish on their external webs ; a 

 white bar on the outer web of the secondaries ; rump, upper tail coverts, 

 entire under surface, axillaries, and under wing coverts ferruginous or chest- 

 nut ; tail black, the external webs of the feathers margined with blue. In the 

 female the colours are less pronounced j s bilj blackish ; legs bro\yn j irides 

 dark brown. 



