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704. Zoothera monticola. The Large Brown Thrush. 



Zoothera monticola, Vigor*, P. 7,. S. 1831, p. 172 ; Gould, Cent. 



pi. xxii ; Blyth, Cat. p. 100 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 102 ; Jerd. B. 



I. i, p. SOU ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 33 ; Blanf. J. A. 



S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 49; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xlv, pt. ii, p. 72 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 350. 

 Geocichla monticola (Vig.}, Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 161. 



Coloration. The whole upper plumage dark slaty, each feather 

 narrowly but distinctly margined darker, giving a scaly appearance 

 to the feathers ; forehead and crown tinged with rufous ; wings 

 dark brown, the quills margined with fulvous-brown and the 

 median and greater coverts tipped with ochraceous ; sides of the 

 head rufescent brown, with ochraceous shafts to the feathers ; 

 chin and middle of the throat white, each feather with a triangular 

 brown tip ; breast and sides of the throat dark olive-brown, with 

 black subterminal spots, the feathers of the middle of the breast 

 with a good deal of fulvous at their centres ; abdomen white, irre- 

 gularly spotted and barred with brown ; under tail-coverts dark 

 olive-brown, broadly tipped white ; sides of the body dark oliva- 

 ceous ; axillaries basally white, then black, and narrowly tipped 

 white ; under wing-coverts black, tipped white ; tail blackish, obso- 

 letely cross-barred, and the outer feathers paler. 



Fig. 40. Head of Z. monticola. 



Legs and feet light brown ; iris dark brown ; bill dark brown 

 (Hume). 



Length between 11 and 12; tail 3'5 ; wing 5'5; tarsus 1'3 ; 

 bill from gape 1*8. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the Sutlej valley to the 

 Daphla hills in Assam, where this bird is a permanent resident 

 up to 10,000 feet. 



705. Zoothera marginata. The Lesser Brown Thrush. 



