TAB. XIV. 
TURDUS PQ@CILOPTERUS. 
Mas. Turd. corpore mgro, abdomine imo subcinerascenti-fusco; remigum mediarum pogonits 
externis pteromatibusque cineraceo-griseis, his apice albis ; rostro pedibusque flavis. 
Foem.? Corpore supra brunnescenti-griseo, subtus pallidiort ; pteromatibus remigumque mediarum 
pogonis externis ut in mari notatis, sed colore subrufescents-tinctis. 
Longitudo corporis, 9 unc.; ale, 53; caude, 4; rostri, 15; tarsz, 1+. 
Tue observations originally made respecting the accordance in the forms of Birds in different and distant 
countries whose temperatures assimilate, are strongly exemplified in the present species, which appears to be 
closely allied to our Blackbird, (Turdus Merula, Linn.,) and which it may be said to represent among the 
mountains of India whose altitude brings them to an European temperature: in fact, were it not for the 
large grey mark in the centre of the wing in the male, it might be easily mistaken for that well-known 
species. As far as we have hitherto been able to ascertain, it has never been found in the hot plains in 
India. It is certainly a bird of great rarity,—the collection from which this work is formed containing the 
only example known of its occurrence. The sexual difference of plumage is greater than is found in the 
Blackbird of Europe. 
The plumage of the male is black, with the exception of a large grey space occupying the middle of the 
wing; the bill is yellow, and the tarsi light brown. | 
In the female the upper parts are light olive-brown, the wings having a tinge of rufous ; the under surface 
is of an uniform greyish brown, the beak and tarsi as in the male. 
