1869.] of Central, Western and Southern India. 179 



Brachypteryoc, &c. The African Thamnolcea is quite as much like a 

 thrush as a Saxicola, while on the other hand there is a complete break 

 between both the subfamilies mentioned and the typical Sylviadce. 

 If Grandala is not a thrush, it should be put with the Starlings as the 

 very closely allied Lamprotornis leucogaster of Africa is. 



353. Oreocaetes cinclorhynchus, Vigors. I saw this 



bird for two consecutive days, 4th and 5th April in high forest about 

 20 miles south-east of Chancla, and I shot one specimen. I suppose 

 all that I saw were migrating, as I met with none afterwards. Jer- 

 don says it feeds on fruits and berries. The bird shot by me had 

 coleoptera and large black ants in its stomach. 



354. Geocichla CyanotUS, J. and S. This bird is occasion- 

 ally met with in the forests around Chanda. At Khandalla between 

 Bombay and Poona, I shot a speciman with an olive green back. In 

 the Indian Museum I find specimens of O. citrina similarly 

 coloured. Jerdon says, the female of cyanotus is less purely coloured 

 than the male, and that of Citrina is olivaceous. The olive green 

 colour is certainly not sexual in the former and I doubt its being 

 so in the latter. I am inclined to think that the olive coloured birds 

 are young. I did not meet with G. citrina in the Central Provinces. 



356. Geocichla unicolor, Tickell. I shot this species also 

 at Khandalla, but did not meet with it in Central India. 



342. MyiophOIlUS Horsfieldii, Vigors. Not rare on the 

 crest of the Western Ghats as far north as Bombay. I shot only one 

 specimen, but I saw others at Khandalla. Mr. Fairbank told me that 

 he had obtained the nest on the Pulney hills close beside a deep pool 

 in a stream, & just like the one described by Jerdon. 



It is rather surprising that this bird does not occur in Sykes's list 

 which, however, is far from complete. 



342a. Callene albiventriS, Pairbank, Pulney hills figured in 

 P. Z. S. for 1867, p. 832, PL XXXIX. and again by Gould, Birds of 

 Asia, Pt. XX. The egg evidently resembles that of C. frontalis de- 

 scribed by Blyth from Hodgson's drawings. Ibis for 1866 II. 373. 



Blyth describes the females of both, Callene rufiventris and C. 

 frontalis, as dull coloured. The specimen of the female of C. albiven- 

 tris was so little paler than the male that I was inclined to consider 



