IN JERDON OR STRAY FEATHERS. 379 



Similar to, but darker colored and with a much stouter bill 

 than, Cinclus asidticus. Wing, 3*9 ; tail, 2*4 ; tarsus, 1'3 ; 

 bill, 0'74; the first quill exceeds the longest of the outer 

 greater wing-coverts by 0*3 • the second nearly equals the 

 third, which is longest ; bill brown, by no means dark ; feet 

 verging towards whitish. — Fauna Japonica. 



" Deep uniform brown ; the middle of the belly somewhat 

 blacker ; the back and uropygium scaled with black" (i.e., with 

 black margins to the feathers) ; " wings and tail brownish black. 

 Length, 8*0; wings, 4-0; tail, 2*5; tarsus, 1*25; bill from 

 gape, 1-1."— Salvin, "Ms," 1877. 



351 tet\— Monticola saxatilis, Lin. 



Dimensions. — (The males are slightly the largest). — Length, 

 7*5 to 8*1 ; expanse, 14 to 15'3 ; wing, 4'5 to 4*8 ; bill at front, 

 0-7 to 0*83 ; tail from vent, 2-75 to 3 ; tarsus, 1-2 to 1'3. The 

 third quill is the longest, and exceeds the first, which is very 

 small, (whereas in Cyanocincla cyana it is of moderate size), by 

 2*9 to 3 ; the second by 0*1 ; and the fourth by 025. 



Description. — Hale. — The whole head and neck all round 

 dull, somewhat greyish-blue ; upper part of the back bluish- 

 black • scapulars and the rest of the back somewhat brownish- 

 black, mottled towards the centre with white ; rump pure 

 white; upper tail-coverts, those nearest the rump, mingled 

 dingy blue and rufous, those adjoining the tail feathers, bright 

 rufous ; central tail feathers brown ; lateral tail feathers bright 

 ferruginous ; wings dark, almost blackish brown ; the coverts 

 darkest, and many of them tipped with greyish or fulvous white ; 

 breast, abdomen, lower tail-coverts, axillaries and most of the wing- 

 lining (which latter, however, is paler) bright ferruginous red. 



Female. — Upper parts dull brown, more or less tinged ashy, 

 and about the head and rump more or less spotted with a 

 darker brown • the back sometimes exhibits white spots simi- 

 lar to those in the male, and the rump has often a yellowish 

 tinge ; the upper tail-coverts are bright rufous ; the tail is 

 similar to that of the male, but duller coloured, and with the 

 central feathers somewhat tinged with rufous ; the throat and 

 sides of the neck are yellowish white, or sometimes pure white, 

 more or less spotted with earthy or ashy brown ; the chest 

 and abdomen are light rufous or reddish white, with narrow 

 wavy transverse brown and whitish bars ; the wings are much 

 as in the male, but the coverts are perhaps more extensively 

 tipped with dull white. 



