MERULIN^. 517 



354. Geocichla cyanotus, J. and S. 



Turdus apud Jardine and Selby, 111. Orn., pi. 46 — Sykes, 

 Cat. 63 — Jerdon, Cat. 84— Blyth. Cat. 957 — Horse., Cat. 

 260 — -Tin rang ha Kasturi, H., i. e., the Three-coloured Thrush. 

 — Yerra poninki, Tel., i e. the Red Thrush. 



The White-winged Ground-thrush. 



Descr. — Head, nape, hind-neck, and sides of neck, ferruginous ; 

 the rest of the plumage above dull cyaneous or leaden ; wings 

 and tail dusky, the former with a white spot on the median wing- 

 coverts, and the outer feather of the tail also tipped with white ; 

 lores white ; ear-coverts white in the centre, continued down the 

 sides of the neck, and with a brown spot above and below the 

 latter, passing into ferruginous, and bordering the white of the ears ; 

 beneath, the chin, throat, and neck, white ; the breast, abdomen 

 and flanks, bright ferruginous, and the vent and under tail-coverts, 

 white. 



The female differs from the male only in the colours being less 

 pure. 



Bill blackish ; legs fleshy-brown ; irides dark brown. Length 

 8^ inches ; extent 14 ; wing 4^ ; tail 3 ; bill at front -^q ; tarsus Ifjj. 

 The White-winged Ground- thrush is peculiar to the jungles of 

 Southern India, extending as far as Goomsoor on the east coast, 

 and to Bombay on the west side of India. It is most abundant in 

 the forests of Malabar and Wynaad, but is not rare in the jungles 

 of the Eastern ghats. It prefers bamboo-jungles, feeds on the 

 ground, and generally perches low. Its food is chiefly insects, 

 such as ants, cockroaches, and beetles ; but, not unfrequently, also 

 stony fruit. It has rather a sweet song, not often heard, however. 

 Mr. Ward procured the nest in N. Canara, made of roots and grass, 

 placed at no great height from the ground ; and the eggs, three in- 

 number, were pale bluish, speckled with brown. 



355. Geocichla citrina, Latham. 

 Turdus apud Latham.-— Blyth, Cat. 956 — Horsf., Cat. 259 — 

 T. Macei, Temminck, PI. Col, 445— T. lividus, Tickell— T. 

 rubecula apud McLelland — Ddma, Beng. — Hamshi-bong , Lepch. 



