THE 



AVIFAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA 



AND 



ITS DEPENDENCIES. 



ORDER. PASSERIFORMES. 



SUB-ORDER. PASSERES. 



GROUP.-CICHLOMORPH.E. 



Family. TURDID^:. 

 Sub-Family. TURDIN^E. 



Gen. Myrmecocichla. Cab. 



Bill moderate, slender, straight, tolerably curving at tip and barely notched ; 

 rictal bristles small; wings as in Saxicola; 2nd quill generally slightly the 

 longest; tail long, of 12 feathers, and slightly rounded; feet stout; bill 

 Saxicoli'ncz, black. 



405. Myrmecocichla fusca (Blyth), Seebohm, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 v. p. 361. Saxicola fusca, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 523 ; id. J. A. S. B. 

 xxiv. p. 1 88. Cercomela fusca (BlytK), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 134 ; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 319; Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 477. The INDIAN CHAT 

 ROBIN, or BROWN ROCK-CHAT. 



Upper parts chocolate brown, paler on the forehead and ear-coverts ; 

 wing coverts and quills dark brown ; tail nearly black ; under surface of body 

 pale chocolate brown, shading into dark brown on the under tail coverts, 

 axillaries and under wing coverts ; bill, legs, feet and claws black ; 3rd 

 and 4th primaries sub-equal and longest ; second intermediate in length 

 between the sixth and seventh ; irides deep brown. 



Length. 6*5 inches; wing 3-4 to 3-65 ; tail 2-5 ; culmen 0-65 ; tarsus ro. 



Hab. The Northern Provinces of India. Has been recorded from Saugor 

 in Central India, also from the States of Bhopal, Gwalior and Bundelcund. 

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