TUEDUS WAEDL 
(WARD’S PIED BLACKBIRD.) 
Turdus wardii, Jerdon, J. A. S. B. 1842, xi. p. 882 ; id. 111. Ind. Ora. pi. 8 (1847) ; G. R. 
Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 219 (1845) ; Brooks, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 237. 
Merula wardii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, p. 146 ; id. Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. ^ ’ 
Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 122 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 185o, xu. 
p. 270 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 402 (1854), 
Turdulus wardii, Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 520 (1862) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 445, 
Cichloseli/s wardii, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 231 (1873). 
Oreocincla pectoralis, Legge, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 244 (young male); Hume, ibid. 1877, p. 
Ward’s Thrush, Kelaart ; Pied Blackbird in India. 
Adult male and female. Length 8-0 to 9-0 inches ; wing 4-3 to 4-8 ; tail 2-9 to 3-3 ; tarsus 0-95 to I'l ; mid toe and 
claw' I'O to I'l ; bill to gape 1‘1 to 1-15. 
Male. Iris brown ; bill vellow, dusky at base of culmen ; legs and feet amber-yellow ; claws yellow. 
Whole head, neck, chest,' upper surface, wings, and tail black ; a broad siiperciUum from the bUl to the nape, terimnai 
portion of ^ving-coverts (forming a patch on the lesser row), tips of all but the outer quills and their inner edges 
at the base, a portion of the outer margins of the longer primaries, tips of the rump, and upper tail-covert 
feathers, together with the under parts from the chest downwards, white; two outer pairs of rectrices wholly white, 
except a portion of the outer webs ; remaining rectrices successively less white towards the centre, the colour 
chiefly confined to the inner w'ebs ; flank- and thigh-coverts black, with deep white tips. 
Female. Iris as in the male ; bill brown, pale at the base ; legs and feet brownish yellow. 
Head, upper surface, wings, and tail olive-brown ; lores dark brown, a fulvous streak from the nostril over the eye ; 
wing-coverts with a large terminal fulvous spot ; primaries with a pale edge, most conspicuous on the three ong 
outer ones ; basal portion of both primaries and secondaries buff-white ; upper tail-coverts tipped w'lth ’ 
two outer tail-feathers with a terminal white patch running up the centre; throat and fore neck bulf-white, e 
feathers with a dark brown terminal band, and the concealed portion with lateral indentations of the same ; cen re 
of the throat unmarked ; breast, lower parts, and flanks white, with terminal bars of blackish brown, excep on 
the centre of the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; lower flanks well covered with brown, owing to e 
depth of the darlc tips ; under wing-coverts white, crossed with a brown bar. 
Young. The male of the year is coloured similarly to the female, but the upper surface is of a darker or richer brown, 
the ear-coverts are darker, the secondaries and tertials are more or less tipped with buff-white, and the ippmgs 
of the upper tail-coverts whiter than in the female ; tail tipped similarly to the female ; supercilium similar-; cen re 
of the throat and lower part of the face buff, the latter with the feathers tipped brown; sides of the gorg 
blackish brown, and the feathers of the chest olive at the tips and sides, within which is a blackish nm cm osn g 
an oblong patch of white ; the olive coloration imparts the appearance of a band across the chest ; breast an 
parts purer white than in the female, with deep terminal blackish bands, except down the centre ; u < 
coverts edged laterally with dark brown. This plumage is probably doffed at the second autumn mo , 
pied dress forthwith assumed. 
Ohs. The above is a description of the plumage in which I described the young ^^'^mTus^racnnired from 
pectoralis. Not being acquainted with the young male at the time, and finding th;^ e Porbes Laurie! 
Mr. Th waites differed from the female (an example of which in my collection had been shot by Mr I orbes 
in the olive pectoral band, I was erroneously led to consider it new. Mr. Hmne remarks (Str. Feath ISii) that 
his Thrusli I such a common and well-known species, that it could not well be described as new This is, however, 
not the case as regards collections in England, in which young males and females are very rare , ere is no specimen 
of either in the British Museum ; and the late Lord Tweeddale wa^ the only naturalist in whose collection I have 
