68 TIMELHD^E. 



Length. 7 inches ; wing 2*9 ; tail 3 ; culmen 0^55 ; tarsus ri. 



The female is wholly brown throughout; tail reddish brown ; lores buff, 

 also the ear coverts and cheeks ; under surface of the body ochreous brown. 



Hab. The Himalayas from Cashmere to Bhootan ; also Western China. It 

 is recorded by Sharpe from Nepaul and Bhootan, and by Jerdon from Sikkim, 

 where he says it is a rare bird. 



Gen. CittOCinda. Sclater. 



Bill more slender than in Copsychus tail very long, graduated; wings 

 rounded ; tarsus slender. 



49 8. CittOCinda tricolor ( Vieill.), Sharpe, A nn $nd Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (5) x. p. 49 ; id. Cat. B. Br. JUus, vii. p. 85, Turd us tricolor, Vieill, N. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat, pt. xx, p, 291. .Copsychus macrurus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Art. 

 Copsychus, Sp. Cercotrichas macrurus, Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 ; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, Ind. B, p. 306; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 412 ; Hume /. c. p. 477; 

 Hume and Oates, Sir. F. 1875, p. 13 ; Ball, t. c. p. 293 ; Fairbk. Str. F. 

 1876, p. 259; Inglis, Sir. F. 1877, p. 36; Oates, /. c. p. 157; Hume and 

 Davison, Sir. F. 1878, i. p. 333; Ball, Str. F. 1878, p. 216; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, pp. 64, 99; Butler, Cat. B. Bom. Pres. p. 47; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, 

 p. 66. Kittacincla macrura, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 7 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B, 

 xvi. p. 139; Jerd. B. Jnd. ii, p. 116, No. 476; Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, 

 p. 550; Godwin- Aust. J. A- S, B. xii. p. 142. Cittocirjcla macrura, Sclater ', 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 109; Beavan, Ibis, 1867, p. 445 , Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 396 j 

 id. B, Ceylon, p. 437 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 22. The SHAMA. 



Head, neck, upper breast, back, scapulars, wing coverts and tertjaries, 

 glossy black ; rump and upper tail coverts white j lower breast, abdomen, 

 sides, flanks, and undertail coverts, also the under wjng coverts, chestnut ; 

 thighs white ; edge of the wing blapk ; also the primaries, their coverts, and 

 secondaries ; central pair of tail feathers black, the others black with broad 

 white tips. 



The female is olive brown, where the male is black j the wing coverts and 

 quills are edged with ferruginous, and the lower surface is dull chestnut, 

 whitish on the abdomen ; tail much shorter. Bill black j legs arid feet fleshy 

 white ; irides dark brown. 



JLengih Male n to j r8 inches; wing 3*45 to 3*65 ; tail 7 to 7^4 ; tarsus 

 T05 ; culmen 07. Length Female 7 to 7-2 inches; tail 4*4 to 4-6. 



Hob. Southern and Central India ; sub- flimalayan region, westward from 

 the Ganges to Assam, through the Burmese countries to Siam, Cochin China, 

 and Hainan, down the Malayan Peninsula to Java. According to Jerdon, it 

 is common in the dense and lofty jungles of Malabar, especially in the upland 

 districts, also in the Wynaad ; more rare in the Eastern Ghauts. It extends to 

 the hill tracts of Assam, Sylhet, Burmah and Malacca, and also to Ceylon. In 



