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122— PALE-EARED THRUSH. 



LENGTH eleven inches; size of the Missel Thrush. Bill one 

 inch from the gape, somewhat arched above, with a slight notch at 

 the tip ; irides yellow ; forehead to the crown pale ash ; from the 

 nostrils to the eye a dusky band ; behind, on the ears, an oval pale 

 patch ; hind part of the head, upper parts of the body and wings, 

 pale cinereous brown ; on the back, the feathers are brown in the 

 middle; rump as the back, but paler; all the under parts rufous 

 white; chin nearly white; greater quills dusky ; tail cuneiform, the 

 length of the two middle feathers five inches, of the outer three; the 

 colour mostly dusky ash ; the three outer ones white; wings short, 

 reaching only to the rump ; legs pale, and stout. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. Found at Lucknow, in 

 March, and at Cawnpore, in July, but with pale blue legs : this bird 

 is probably distinct, but has some things in common both with the 

 Crying and Chinese Thrushes. 



123— TUFTED THRUSH. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill stout, lead-colour; nostrils covered 

 by a filmy membrane, with a few slender hairs at the base ; the irides 

 yellow ; head and neck black ; from the middle of the crown a tuft 

 of narrow feathers, some one inch long, and turning backwards ; the 

 upper parts of the body pale greenish grey, the under and rump 

 yellow, deeper on the breast; wings and tail pale dusky brown; the 

 quills dusky, with pale edges; tail two inches and a quarter long, 

 even at the end, pale dusky, or ash-colour ; legs pale blue. 



Inhabits India ; found in the Forest of Rohilcund. 



