108 THRUSH. 



in shade ; in some quite brown, in others cream-colour : I observe, 

 likewise, that in a few, the whole body is marked with numerous 

 transverse, narrow, dusky bars, more or less conspicuous ; and in such 

 the tail is more cuneiform, and all the feathers crossed with ten or 

 twelve dusky bars : and further, in one specimen these bars were at 

 least twenty in number, and the outer feather white at the tip. 



It seems uncertain whether all the above are allied to each other, 

 or not, as there appear in various drawings so many gradations; 

 this circumstance, therefore, must remain for the present uncertain. 

 I find several names given to respective birds, viz. Gogay, Ghogy, 

 and Gogauy ; and to others Chataraea, and Chahtahroo, but these 

 are Indian names. 



121— GOGOYE THRUSH. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill one inch, somewhat 

 bent, pale brownish lead-colour, with a few weak hairs at the base ; 

 top of the head pale cinereous brown, the feathers dashed with darker 

 brown, and these, at the back of the hindhead, elongated into a sort 

 of crest; the rest of the upper parts bluish ash, the middle of each 

 feather darker ; all beneath rufous white ; tail very cuneiform ; the 

 two middle feathers three inches and a half long; the next one inch 

 and a quarter shorter : the outmost scarcely one inch and a half; the 

 two middle are pale rufous brown ; the others the same, but more 

 inclined to blue, and crossed with three or four almost obsolete 

 darker markings ; the ends of all of them, for a quarter of an inch, 

 dusky brown ; legs pale. 



Inhabits India, and there called Gogoye. — Lord Mountnorris. 



