ORB. INSESSORES. 



TRIBE—DENTIROSTRES. 



FA3f. MERULID^. 

 GENUS TURDUS. 

 PLATE Fill. 



TURD US WARDII—Jerdo7i. 



PIED THRUSH. 



I am indebted to my friend S. N. Ward, Esq. M. C. S., for the only specimen of 

 this curious Thrush, I kave yet seen. It was procured by him in the table-land of Mysore 

 immediately below the Segoor pass of the Neilgherries, during the cool season — I regret that 

 I know nothing of its habits. 



I have dedicated it to Mr. Ward a keen and zealous Naturalist to whose researches 

 I am akeady indebted for several novelties, and from whom I hope to receive shortly a 

 still further accession to the Peninsular Fauna. Mr. Blyth to whom I forwarded for in- 

 spection the unique specimen I possess of this Thrush, thus speaks of it in his Museum report 

 for September 1842. " A remarkably coloured species from Mysore, connecting the Black- 

 bird group with the Oreocinclce of Gould." 



Description. — General colour black — eye-streak and lower parts from the breast 

 white — upper tail coverts banded black and white, all the wing feathers tipped white, 

 forming a conspicuous patch on the lesser wing coverts, a streak on the edge of the 

 greater coverts, and another on the end of the smaller wing feathers. Sides of the 

 body banded with dusky black — tail feathers black, white tipped and edged, most so 

 on the external feathers, diminishing to the medial tail feathers — irides dark brown 

 — ^biH yeUow, dusky at the base above — legs, feet and claws yellow. Length 9 



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