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it is larger, being nearly a foot long. The male is black 

 all over, except for a large patch of silver-grey on the 

 wings ; his bill is orange-red, and his legs dull orange- 

 brown. The hen is dull dark brown, with a buff patch 

 on the wings, corresponding to the grey one in the male ; 

 her bill and legs are duller than his. The young birds 

 are, I believe, brown with buff spots, like young English 

 Blackbirds. 



The Grey-winged Blackbird is found all along the 

 Himalayas, and extends to Manipur ; it ranges up to eight 

 thousand feet in summer, descending in winter even to 

 the plains. It breeds from April to August, laying four 

 green eggs speckled with brown in a nest placed in a hollow 

 or ledge, and made of moss and leaves, for it does not 

 use mud like the English bird. 



It has a fine song, and will live in captivity in the 

 plains, but I have not seen many of these birds caged. 



THE ORANGE-HEADED GROUND-THRUSH (Geocichla ci- 

 trina) called Dama in Bengal, is about nine inches long, 

 having a tail rather shorter than most Thrushes. It is 

 a strikingly coloured bird, the male being orange-chestnut 

 on the head, neck, and breast, and French grey on the 

 back, wings and tail, with a white belly and a small white 

 patch on the wing. The hen is olive-coloured where the 

 cock is grey, and the orange of her plumage is less rich. 

 The bill is black, and the legs flesh-coloured. 



This bird is widely spread over the Empire, breeding 

 in the Himalayas up to six thousand feet, and distribut- 

 ing itself over the plains in winter ; in Burma it is more 

 abundant and less inclined to undertake even this small 



