Illustrations of Indian Ornithohgy ; 



the tail feathers too are not so wide as in malabaricus, a similar difference existing, I find 



on comparing specimens, between griseus of the East coast and affinit of the West, which 



I had not previously observed. This bird is the Pcdda oi ^rfat-cc AVerfa of the Telingas. 



\ add its dimensions. Length 9^. Wing 4,',. Tail 4J. Tarsus hardly Ij^. Hind toe and claw ', 



Bill (at front) Tv-Qths. at gape about 1. I may state that I haave obtained many specimens 



of this species all agreeing exactly in colour. 



6th. M. terricolor Hodgson. Mr. Blyth some time ago informed me that he had 



obtained this common Bengal species from Goomsoor, and I have now before me a specimen 



from that locality in Lord Arthur Hay's collection. I obtained a specimen of this species 



when in Goomsoor some years ago, and referred to it in my Catalogue, under Somervillei, as 



probably distinct,though the form of the bill mentioned there appears to have been accidental. 



On comparing it with some specimens sent me by Mr. Blyth from Calcutta there appear 



some differences ; it is somewhat smaller in all its dimentions, more uniform in its colour above, 



and more rufous beneath, but it is otherwise so very cIospIv allied that I shall not at 



present separate it, but should it hereafter prove to be distinct I would propose the name 



of Orisscs from the name of the district. I add its dimensions. Length 9, Wing 4, Tail 4, 



1 

 Tarsus 1;^, Hind toe andclaw j^ths. Bill, at front ..ths. at gape 1 mth. 



A Calcutta specimen measures about 9 J inches or more Wing 4r„, Tail 4 i. Tars 

 1;^, Bill at front ^„ths, at srape lf„th, higher than in the Goomsoor specimen. This species is 

 is the Turdus Canorus of Linnaeus from Edward's figure of his Brown Indian Thrush, 

 but Mr. Blyth rejects the name ' from its extreme inappropriatencss, the bird having a most 

 particularly harsh voice (atch, atch) and no pretensions whatever to be musical, in the least 

 degree. It is probably the M. stri(Uus of a catalogue of Bengal birds in the Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843.' It is the Chatarrha-a and .SV///i Bhai-e (seven Brothers,) of the 

 Bengalese. It extends into Nepal and Assam. 



7th. 3/. subrufus, Tliimalia subru/a, J eidon Catal. No. 93. T. ptrcilorhyncha 

 De la Fresnaye, Kev. Zool. de la Soc. Cuv. 1840. This is a very distinct species from all the 

 previous ones, allied in coloring to the Crateropi. It frequents bamboo jungles in the 

 elevated region of Wynaad, and along the edges of the ^\' estern Ghauts. 1 observed it once 

 at Coonoor on the edge of the Neilgherry hills. 



Besides the species enumerated above we have tlic M. strialus Swainson from. 

 Ceylon. A Cingalese specimen which (Mr. Blyth remarks) corresponded closely with 



