368 Appendix to Mr. Blyth's Report [No. 149. 



weak tinge of fulvous on the abdominal region. Bill an inch and 

 one-eighth to gape. This is one of the most common birds of Bengal, 

 and it is only after examining a considerable number of specimens, 

 that I consider it may be safely separated from M. striatus. It extends 

 into Nepal and Assam.* 



3. M. Somervillei; Timalia Somervillei, Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 

 89. The general colour of this species is somewhat darker, with dis- 

 tinct pale mesial streaks on the feathers of the back and breast, which 

 are seen also on the upper-parts of the next species ; its tertials are 

 but very obscurely striated, but the tail distinctly so, as in the first: 

 tarse somewhat shorter than in the two preceding. Mr. Jerdon agrees 

 with me in considering this distinct from M. terricolor, which it repre- 

 sents in the Indian peninsula, extending northward, according to Dr. 

 Royle's list, to the plains nearest Saharunpore ; but the species of this 

 group approximate so very closely, that it is necessary to be most 

 cautious in identifying them. Indeed, the present one is not impro- 

 bably the original striatus, although not that of Mr. Swainson. 



4. M. griseus ; Turdus griseus, Latham ; Timalia grisea, Jerdon, 

 Madr. JL No. XXV, 258. This is another peninsular species, also 

 closely related to the foregoing, but readily distinguished by its 

 inferior size, yellowish- white crown or whole top of the head, and dark 

 throat. Common in the Carnatic, and found sparingly in the more open 

 portion of the West Coast. 



A race allied to this was met with in the Southern Mahratta 

 country by Mr. Elliot, being described by him to have whitish legs and 

 feet, instead of yellow (vide Madr. JL No. XXV, 259). Mr. Jerdon 

 has never observed A. griseus above the Ghauts. 



* No doubt the M. striatus of a catalogue of Bengal birds published in the An. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 447. — It is also, I perceive from Edwards's description 

 of his "Brown Indian Thrush," which was " brought from Bengal in the East Indies," 

 decidedly the species intended by him: the figure, too, being chiefly faulty in atti- 

 tude, while the colouring of it is enough to mislead any one. Upon this figure and 

 description is founded Turdus canorus, Lin., and the " lantkocincla canora, (Lin.)", 

 of Mr. Strickland's list of some Chinese birds exhibited in London, An. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1843, p. 221, is meant to refer to it, but doubtless indicates some other spe- 

 cies, probably the Turdus chinensis, Osbeck, which Linnaeus considered identical 

 with the bird of Edwards. The specific name canorus has accordingly the priority 

 for this species, but must be rejected from its extreme inappropriateness : the bird hav- 

 ing a most particularly harsh voice (atck, atchj, and no pretensions whatever to be 

 musical, in the least degree. 



