Order Passeri formes, Family Turdidae, Genus Ephthiaimra. 113 



No. 128— Female. Length, 12.5 inches (14/6/06). 

 Irides, dark reddish brown; bill, black; legs and feet, 

 pink, with a bluish tinge at the joints. 



No. 180— Female. Length, 14 inches (25/6/86). 

 Bill, black, lighter at the base of the lower mandible. 



No. 203— Female. Length, 14.1 inches (28/6/86).. 



No. 253— Female. Length, 14.4 inches (1/9/86). 

 Irides, red; bill, black; legs and feet, pink, inside of the 

 tibia and tarsi with a narrow stripe of a light lilac. 



No. 434— Male. Length, 14.4 inches (25/10/86). 



Order Passeriformes, Family Turdidae, 

 Genus Ephthianura. 



Eplithiamira aTbifrons — The White-fronted Chat or Tin-tac. 



Description! (male). — Upper surface. — forehead, white; 

 crown of the head and occiput, black; back of neck, dark grey; 

 back, grey, each feather with a broad band of dark brown 

 down its centre; rump, grey; upper tail coverts, black. 



Under surface. — Chin, throat, and space round the eye, 

 white, joining up with the white of the forehead, below the 

 white a broad band of black crosses, the upper part of the 

 breast joining up with the black of the occiput; rest of under 

 Surface, white; thighs, dull black, some of the feathers largely 

 tipped with white. Wing, dusky black. Tail. — Two central 

 feathers, black ; lateral feathers, black, with their inner webbs 

 largely tipped with white. Iris, reddish buff; bill and feet, 

 black. 



Total length (dry skin), 121 in. in.; wing, 70 m.m. ; tarsus, 

 17 m.m.; bill, 10 m.m. 



Female. — The whole of the upper surface, brown, each 

 feather witli a darker line down the centre. The white of 

 the throat has a tinge of grey, and the pectoral band is dull 

 black; abdomen, greyish white; flanks, grey. In some speci- 

 mens there is a whitish line over, and extending behind, the 

 eye. Wings, brown. Tail. — Two centre feathers, brown; 

 lateral feathers, brown, tipped with white, as in the male. 

 Young birds resemble the female, except that there is only 

 an indication of the pectoral band, which is brown, and the 



