jrES. 367 



to that genus than to true Saxicola. The foUowmg are 

 the dimensions of a pair :- 



jNIale 



Female 275 



142. Grandala leucogaster (Gm.). 



Turdus Itucogaster, Gm. Syst. Nat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 819. 

 Lamprotornis leucogaster, Eiipp. Xeu. Wirb. p. 24 ; et Syst. Uebers. 



Xo. 245. 

 Pholidauges leucogaster, Cab. Mub. Heiiii i. p. 198. — Brehm, 



Habesch, No. 85.— Heugl. Joum. f. Orn. 1869, p. 10. 



Iris dark grey within, and an outer circle of yellowish 



grey. 



This beautiful bird appears to rae fairly congeneric 

 with the Himalayan Grandala coelicolor, Hodgsom 

 Both are of very dubious affinity, but their relationship 

 to the Starlings is at least as questionable as to the 

 SaxicolincB. Their very short legs contrast with both, 

 whilst the form of the wing is quite different from that 

 found amongst the short-legged Bulbuls and Orioles to 

 which the present form might otherwise be assigned 

 The habits are rather Starling-like. 



There appears to have been some doubt on the part of 

 previous o'bgervers as to whether the plain thrush-like 

 plumage is the livery of the female or only of the young. 

 The latter is stated by Kiippell and Heuglin. The 

 former was the case in all the birds shot by me, and a 

 very large number of pairs seen by me in May consisted 

 of a briUiantly-plumaged male and a dull female. Mr. 

 Jesse and Captain Sturt, who both frequently saw and 

 shot the bird, came to precisely the same conclusion, and 



