TURBINE. 169 



Pitta brachyura, Lin. 



345. Pitta bengatensis, Gmel. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, 

 p. 503 ; P. coronata, Mull ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. Ill, p. 470 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 398. 



THE YELLOW-BREASTED GROUND THRUSH. 

 Nourang, Hin. 



Length, 7 ; wing, 4'25 ; tail, 1'7 ; tarsus, 1-5 ; bill at front, 0'6. 



Bill black ; irides hazel-brown ; legs yellowish-pink. 



Head olivaceous- fulvous, with a median black stripe from the 

 base of bill to the back of the neck, meeting another black band 

 that passes through the ears ; a white superciliary line extending 

 also to the nape, but not quite meeting its fellow ; the whole back, 

 rump, scapulars and wing-coverts, dull blue-green ; the lengthened 

 upper tail-coverts pale-blue ; a pale azure-blue patch on the 

 shoulder of the wing ; quills black, with a white bar on the first six 

 primaries, and the tip of all white or albescent ; secondaries blue- 

 green on the outer margin, increasing in extent inwardly ; tail 

 black, tipped with dull-blue ; beneath, the chin, throat, and the 

 sides of the neck below the ears, white ; the rest of the lower 

 parts isabelline or fulvescent, with the middle of the lower part of 

 the abdomen, the vent, and the under tail-coverts, scarlet. 



The Yellow-breasted Ground Thrush is not uncommon in the 

 Deccan, during the seasons of migration, viz., April and May, and 

 again in September and October ; it also occurs at Mount Aboo, 

 about the same time, and has not unfrequently been obtained at 

 and near Deesa. 



It has not been recorded from Sind. 



SUB-FAMILY, Turdinae. 



Bill of moderate length, as long as head ; nostrils in a groovf 

 apert ; wings long and broad, somewhat pointed ; first quill ver} 

 short ; third and fourth longest, sub-equal ; tail moderate ; outer- 

 toe longer than inner, and united to middle at base. 



GENUS, Monticola. 



Bill moderate or long, mod erately hooked at tip ; nostrils apert ; 

 rictal bristles numerous ; wings long ; third quill longest ; tarsus 

 scutellate. 



Monticola cyaneus, Lin. 



351. Petrocossyphus cyaneus, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, 

 Vol. I, p. 511 ; Cyanocincla cyana, Lm.; Butler, Guzerat; Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 470 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 

 p. 398 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 129 ; Swinhoe 

 and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 67. 

 THE BLUE ROCK THRUSH. 

 Length, 8-5 to 9 ; expanse, 13 to 14'5 ; wing, 4'5 to 5 ; tail, 3'1 



to 3-8 ; bill at front, 07 to 0'9 ; bill from gape, 1'25. 



