COPSYCHUS. 



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Above earthy brown, darker on the lower back and rump ; a white wing 

 spot, the outer edges of the feathers blue black ; quills brown, edged with 

 paler brown ; upper tail coverts blue black ; lores, feathers above the eye, sides of 

 the face, ear coverts and under surface of the body glossy blue black ; lower 

 abdomen and under tail coverts bright chestnut ; thighs brown ; under wing 

 coverts like the breast. Bill and legs black ; irides brown. 



The female is paler earthy brown, and has no shoulder patch ; the upper 

 tail coverts are of the same color as the back ; under surface brown. 



Length. 5*6 to6'8 inches ; wing 27 to 275 ; tail 2-5 to 2'6; tarsus I. 



Hab. Central and Northern India to the Himalayas. Found commonly 

 in the Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Sind, Kutch, Kattiawar, N. Guzerat, Jodh- 

 pore, the Concan and Deccan, also in Khandeish, and, as in Sind, is probably 

 a resident of these places. In Sind it breeds from March to July. Eggs 

 white or pale greenish white, speckled with pale red. 



Gen. CopSychUS. Wagl. 



Bill moderately long and strong ; culmen slightly curving and bent at the 

 tip ; nostrils basal, large ; rictal bristles very scanty ; wings with the 4th and 5th 

 quills longest, the 3rd sub-equal ; tail graduated ; tarsus scutellated, moder- 

 ately long and stout; mid toe long ; claws curved. 



Head and leg of Copsychns saularis. 



495- CopSychllS saularis (Lin), Wagler, Syst. Av. 1827 ; Blyth, J. 

 A. S. B. xi. p. 889; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 114, No. 475 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 Ind. B. p. 303 ; Hume and Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 202 ; Hume* Sir 

 F. ii. p. 230 ; iii. p. 133 ; Bl. B. Burnt, p. 100 ; Oates, Str. F.v.p. 157 ; Hume 

 and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 332 fLegge, B. Ceylon, p. 433 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 99 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. p. 62 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. 

 i. p. 21. Gracula saularis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 165. Copsychus minda- 

 nensis (non. Gm.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 139; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, 

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