148 TURDID^E. 



whitish. After the autumn moult the lower parts are fringed 

 with white, and some of the feathers of the head with black. 



Female. Upper plumage brown, each feather with a blackish 

 shaft-streak and a subterminal dark bar with a pale tip ; upper 

 tail-coverts chestnut, similarly barred and tipped ; tail chestnut, 

 the middle pair of feathers brown on their terminal half ; lower 

 plumage dull white, suffused with rufous everywhere except on the 

 throat, each feather with a wavy interrupted cross-bar near the 

 tip ; under tail- and wing-coverts and the axillaries chestnut with 

 indistinct white tips. 



Bill dusky, lower mandible yellow at base ; iris brown ; legs, 

 feet, and claws black (Scully}. 



Length about 7'5 ; tail 2'5; wing 4'7 ; tarsus 1*1; bill from 

 gape 1-1. 



Distribution. Occurs in Gilgit at the autumn migration, the 

 birds met with in this locality being chiefly young. Stoliczka 

 obtained a specimen, probably of this species, near Dras. Blanford 

 records this species from the banks of the Irrawaddy, near Ava, in 

 Upper Burma. 



This Rock-Thrush has an extensive range from Northern Africa 

 and Southern Europe through Asia to China. Its migration 

 appears to be of very limited extent. 



Genus TURDUS, Linn., 1766. 



The genus Turdus contains those Thrushes in which the sexes 

 are alike and the under wing-coverts and axillaries of one colour. 

 The three Indian species of this genus are found in Europe (and 

 in England) and are among the best known birds of the tribe. 



In Turdus both the wing and tail are long, and the latter is 

 slightly graduated ; the bill is small, and there is no pattern on 

 the underside of the wing. 



The Thrushes of this genus are good songsters ; they are 

 found in well-wooded country; they make cup- shaped nests in 

 trees, using mud in the construction, and they feed largely on 

 berries and fruit. 



Key to tlie Species. 



1 axillaries white. 



a . urown ana mantle Drown T. viscivorus, p. 1< 



b' '. Crown blue, mantle rufous T. pilaris, p. 150. 



?. Under wing-coverts and axillaries rufous T. iliaeiis, p. 150. 



a. Under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



a. Crown and mantle brown T. viscivorus, p. 148. 



695. Turdus viscivorus. The Missel- Tlirusli. 



Turdus viscivorus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 291 (1766) ; Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 160 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 194 ; Hume, Cat. no. 368 ; Seebohm, 

 Cat. B. M. v, p. 194 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 53 ; Scully, Ibis. 

 1881, p. 439 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed, ii, p, 106, 



