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East ; it is common about Serahaa and Nachar, but rare at Chini, 

 and is not likely to be found to the east of the last cedar-forests. 



100. Geocichla unicolor, Ti c h, (1. 519) is rather rare in this 

 part of the valley, bat more common in Chamba, Kishtwar, Kashmir 

 and even in little Tibet ; it prefers wooded districts to rocky and bare 

 places. 



101. Turdulus Wardii, Jerd., (I. 520), is not common in the 

 lower hills. I have not seen it beyond Serahan, where once only, 

 in August I860, I met with three specimens ; it is rarer in the N. W. 

 Himalayas, than any of the other thrushes. 



102. Meruit boulboul, Lath., (I. 525). The geographical 

 range of this species is restricted to the lower hills about Simla and 

 Kotegurh, it does not oecur beyond Nachar, being far from a common 

 bird, though found about Kotegurh the greater part of the winter. 



103. Merula ALBocrNCTA, Iloyle,(l. 520), common in winter 

 about Simla and Kotegurh ; its range in summer is between 8 and 

 12,000 feet. 



104. Merula castanea, Gould, (I. 526), only arrives in winter 

 at Kotegurh, and probably lives during the summer months in Central 

 Asia and eastern Tibet, for I have not seen it about Chini or Sungnum, 

 though it may occur in tlte highest forests, near the limit of trees. 



105. Planesticus atrogularis, Temm., (I. 529), is also, only a 

 winter visitant to the neighbourhood of Kotegurh, but it is common 

 at that time of the year. 



Male; above earthy cinereous brown, most of the feathers on the front 

 and top of the head, and sides of the neck centred dusky ; wings and tail 

 dusky, all feathers pale olivaceous on the edges of the outer webs ; lores,, 

 sides of the head and of the lower neck, chin, throat and front of breast 

 black, all feathers slightly tipped whitish ; the rest of the plumage below 

 white, ashy on the sides ; inner wing coverts pale ferruginous ; lower tail 

 coverts mostly white, some of the longer ones broadly margined, but 

 not tipped, with dark rufous brown. Bill light brown, yellowish at 

 the base. 



Female ; above like the male, less dusky on the top of the head ; lores 

 blackish ; sides of head ashy ; chin and throat white with longitudinal 

 brown streaks, especially on the sides ; breast cinereous olive, each 

 feather with a large triangular brown spot near the tip, which is white,. 



