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female of which is S. erythrurus of Lesson, has constantly the head 

 and upper- parts of the male olive-brown; while in that of Southern 

 India, the head and upper-parts of the male are shining deep black, 

 the same as the under-parts, — this latter being Motacilla fulicata, 

 Lin., JEnanthe ptygmatura, Vieillot, Th. leucoptera, Swainson, Rus- 

 ty-vented Thrush, and the female — Sylvia fulicata, var. A, of Latham. 

 The females of the two species are, however, undistinguishable ; and 

 I have observed that t]?e younger males of Th. fulicata have the upper- 

 parts more or less brown, as in the northern species, the head more 

 especially ; but the dorsal plumage (so far as I have seen) is always 

 shining black underneath, and the brown edgings are cast after a while, 

 leaving a more or less perfect black surface. The northern species, on 

 the contrary, has no black on the interior of its feathers. This bird 

 is the Motacilla fulicata of Tickell's list, and it abounds in all Upper 

 India : I have never seen it from below the Rajmahl hills in Bengal, 

 but it is common in the Midnapore jungles. 



We may now venture on the great series of Indian Thrushes, which 

 are as follow : 



Zoothera, Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 172. 



1. Z. monticola, Vigors, ibid. ; Gould's ' Century,' pi. XXII. The 

 figure cited of this bird is faulty, making the body appear much too 

 large ; the legs and toes are also represented too stout and terrene in 

 their character ; and even the beak is incorrectly drawn, being too deep 

 at base, instead of the culmen rising from the base and becoming 

 deepest about the middle. In the young, the bill is not longer than 

 that of an ordinary Thrush, but there are indications of its future form ; 

 and the plumage of the nestling much resembles the corresponding garb 

 of an English Blackbird. In fact, the Zoothera is merely a stout Thrush 

 allied to the Oreocincla of Gould, with a strangely overgrown bill ; but 

 this could never be inferred from Gould's figure of it. A specimen 

 from Arracan is perhaps distinct, or it may be only the ordinary female : 

 it differs from several Darjeeling specimens (males ?) in its rather smaller 

 size and less developed bill, in the olive-brown hue of its whole upper- 

 parts, in having a distinct whitish loral streak and much intermixture 

 of the same upon the ear-coverts, and in the feathers of the under-parts 

 being whitish with a broad olive-coloured border, surrounding the fea- 

 ther more or less according to the part. Inhabits the Himalaya; and 



