130 TUEDID^. 



Isis. 1822, p. 552; Shelhy, Birds Egypt, p. 70; Blf. Eastern Persia, 

 ii. p. 155. Petrocossyphus cyaneus (Linn.) Boie. Ids. 1828; Jerd. B. 

 Jnd. i. p. 511, No. 351; III. Ind. Orn. p. 20; Hume and Renders. 

 Lahwe to Yarhand, p. 190 ; Heugl, Syst. TJehers. p. 29; Sharpe and 

 Dresser, B. Eur. ; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., Sfc, Sind. Cyanocincla cyanus, 

 {Linn.) Sir. F. 1874, p. 407; vol. vi. p. 247; id. iii. p. 112.— The 

 Blue Rock Thkdsh. 



Male. — Head, neck, and back indigo blue, with a faint metallic lustre 

 on the head; lores dusky greyish; wings, their coverts and tail dark 

 brown ; the outer webs of the feathers indigo blue ; under surface of 

 body cobalt blue; the abdomen and the under tail-coverts with faint 

 streaks and spots of whitish. 



Female. — Of a dingy brown, scarcely tinged above with .indigo or 

 cobalt blue; some of the feathers edged whitish ; under parts fulvous, 

 with dusky transverse bars, including the under tail-coverts ; bill black; 

 legs black ; irides brown. 



Length.— 8-b to 9 inches, wing 4"5 to 5, tail 3'75 to 4, bill at front 

 nearly one inch. 



Hab. — Southern Europe, N. Africa, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan; 

 wintering throughout the Peninsula of India. Recorded from all 

 India, Tennaserim, Cashmere, Nepaul and M . W. Himalayas. Extremely 

 common in the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, 

 Sambhur and North Guzerat, also in South India. 



Monticola cinclorhynchus, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 1 72. Petrophila 

 cinclorhynoha (Vig.) Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 252; Hume, Nest and 

 Eggs, Ind. B. p. 227. Orocetes cinclorhynchus (Vig.) Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 297; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 515; Sharpe, vol. v. Cat. Fasserif. B, 

 Museum, p. 320; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., 8fc., Sind., p. 140 ; Str. F. vol. 

 iv. 398. — The Bltje-headed Chat Thkdsh. 



Male. — Head, nape, chin, upper throat, and cheeks indigo or cobalt 

 blue, also the lesser wing-coverts; lores, ear-coverts, sides of .neck, back, 

 and scapulars black, tinged with dusky blue on the back ; primaries, 

 their coverts, and greater and median coverts edged with bluish on 

 their external webs ; a white bar on the outer webs of the secon- 

 daries ; rump, upper tail-coverts, entire under surface, axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts, ferruginous or chestnut ; tail black, the external 

 webs of the feathers margined with blue. In the female the colours are 

 less pronounced; bill blackish; legs brown; irides dark brown. 



Length.— 7 to 7'5 inches, wing 4, tail 2-75 to 3, bill at front 1. 



Hab. — The Indian Peninsula, ranging to Nepaul and Cashmere. 

 Occurs sparingly in Sind, Punjab, and N. W. Provinces, and more 

 abundantly in the Concan, Deccan, Travancore, North Guzei-at and 

 Rajputana, in the course of its migration. Breeds in the Himalayas. 



Gen. Merula, Leach. — Ground Thrushes. 



Bill modei-ate, stout, compressed, sti'aight and notched; rictal 

 plumes short ; wings long ; 3rd and 4th quill longest. 



