CATALOGUE. 
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281. MYIOPHONUS C^EULEUS, Scop. Sp. 
G-racula cserulea, Scop. 
Myiopliouus cseruleus, Strichland. Blyth, App. Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 326. 
Myiophonus Temminckii, Vigors, P. Z. S. (1831),^. 171. 
Gould, Cent. t. 21. G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. 
p: 214. Hodgs., Cat. B. Nep. p. 78. Blytli, Journ. 
A. S. Beng. XYI. p. 154 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 159. JBonap., C G. Av. p. 258. 
Myiophonus metallicus, apud Sodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. 
(1844),^. 83. 
Hill Blackbird of Europeans in India. 
CusTOOEA, HiDs, Boyle. 
Ktjljet, Doon, Shore. Hutton. 
A. Bootan. From Pemberton's Collection. 
h. Afghanistan. From Griffith's Collection. 
c. d. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., June, 
1853. 
" This is very common throughout the Himalaya, frequenting the 
beds of streams in the lower ranges ; and its musical whistle 
(according to Mr. Yigne) is the sweetest note heard in the hills." — 
(Blyth, Journ. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 154.) 
" On the 16th June," observes Captain Hutton, " I took two nests 
of this bird, each containing three eggs,- and another one containing 
three nearly fledged young ones. The nest bears a strong re- 
semblance to that of the Geocichlce, but is much more solid, being 
composed of a thick bed of green moss externally, lined first with 
long black fibrous lichens, and then with fine roots. Externally the 
nest is 3^ inches deep, but w ithin only 2^ inches ; the diameter 
about 4f inches, and the thickness of the outer or exposed side is 2 
inches. The eggs are three in number, of a greenish ashy, freckled 
with minute roseate specks, which become confluent and form a 
patch at the larger end ; shape ordinarily, and rather gracefully, 
ovate ; diameter 1^^ x tg The elevation at which the nests 
were found was from 4,000 to 4,500 feet ; but the bird is common, 
except during the breeding season, at all elevations up to the snows, 
and in the winter it extends its range down into the Doon. In the 
breeding season, it is found chiefly in the glens, in the retired depths 
of which it constructs its nest ; it never, like the Thrushes and 
