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anywhere. It is usually seen sporting about the lower branches 
and trunks of trees, capturing insects, &c., and is an active, 
restless little bird. It retires to the hills in April. 
353.—Petrophila cinclorhyncha, Vig. 
The Blue-headed Chat Thrush can only, I think, be consi- 
dered as a rare cold weather visitor. I have only seen it on 
two or three occasions in the forest-looking topes along the 
Chowka near Byramghat, and once in a rather jungly mangoe 
grove not far from Lucknow. In December last I saw and 
shot a specimen in a mangoe tope near Lucknow. 
355.—Geocichla citrina, Zath. 
The Rusty-throated Ground-Thrush, like the last species, is 
only a cold weather visitor, but is not so rare. It may, to a 
certainty, be found in every forest-looking bamboo brake, 
frequenting damp and dark nooks, where it feeds on the slugs 
and insects usually found in these, turning over the leaves on the 
ground to find them. It not unfrequently enters the Horticul- 
tural Gardens at Lucknow, where it finds suitable haunts in the 
damp shrubberies there; but in dry dhak jungles, no matter 
how shady the trees may be, I have never seen it. It also 
avoids mangoe topes. 
371.—Oreocincla dauma, Lath. 
28th December, Female.—Length, 10:5 ; expanse, 16°25 ; wing, 
5°60; tail, 3°65; tarsus, 1:30; bill, from gape, 1:25. Bill, 
upper mandible dark brown, lower much paler brown; legs 
fleshy white. 
The Small-billed Mountain Thrush, which is also only 
a winter visitor, is about as common as the last species, 
resembling it in its habits and frequenting precisely the same 
localities, though I have not observed it so close to Lucknow as 
in the Horticultural Gardens. 
385.—Pictoris sinensis, Gm. 
14th November, Female.—Length, 7°62 ; expanse, (?); wing, 
2°50; tail, 4°; tarsus, 1:; bill, from gape, ‘60; weight, *50 oz. 
The Yellow-eyed Babbler is very common and a_ permanent 
resident, rather more abundant during the cold than in the hot 
and rainy seasons. It is fond of grassy bush and dhak jungle, 
but fonder still of patches and rows of tall thatching grass, 
on the stalks of which, when seeding, it settles and searches 
diligently for insects, generally in parties ranging from six to a 
