Genus OEEOCINCLA. 
Bill stout and longer than in Turdus. Tail variable, consisting, in some members of the 
gronp, of 14 feathers. 
Plumage above and beneath with dark scale-like tippings. 
OEEOCINCLA IMBEICATA. 
frHE.BUFF-BEEASTED THRUSH.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
ZootJiera imbricata, Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 212 ; Jerdon, B, of India, 
i. p. 509 (1863). 
Oreocincla nilghiriensis, Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 139 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 456. 
Oreocincla imbricata (Lay.), Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 437. 
Oreocincla gregoriana (Nevill), id. tom. cit. 
Ad. supra ochrasceiiti-brunneus, plumis omnibus conspicuo nigro marginatis, quasi lunulatis, uropygii et supraeau- 
clalium marginibus angiistioribus : pilei plumis subtermiuaJiter elariiis ochrasceiitibus : tectricibus alarum nigris 
ad apiccm olivaceo-bruuiieo maculatis et aureo-brumieo terniinatis ; tectricibus priinariorum uigris estus versus 
basui late aui-eis : remigibus nigric<anti-brunneis, extiis dorsi colore lavatis et aureo-brunneo marginatis : rectri- 
cibus duabus medianis olivascenti-brunneis, rellquis nigricanti-brimneis, exterioribus paUidioribus : Ions albi- 
eanubus : regione parotica aureo-fulva, plumis nigro terminatis et mediaUter albiclo striolatis : genis aureo- 
iulvis nigro maculatim terminals : gula aureo-fulvft immaeulata : corpore reliquo subtiis aureo-fulvo, plumi.s 
nigro tasciatim terrnmatis : bypocbondriis pauUo latiiis nigro ad apicem fasciatie : abdomine et subcaudalibus 
aureo-lulvis immaculatis : rostro brimneo, mandibula pallidiore : pedibus brunneis. 
Adult male. Length 9-3 to 9-G inches ; wing 4-8 to 5-05 ; tail 2-9 to 3-0 ; tarsus 1-1 to I'lo ; middle toe and claw 
1-15 to 1-2 ; bill to gape 1-38 to 1-53, average length 1-4. 
Aduk female. Wing 4'65 to 4-8. 
These measurements are taken from a series of 14 examples in my own collection and those of the late Lord Tweeddale, 
Messrs. Bligh, Holdsworth, and Thwaites. 
Iris brown ; bill blackish brown, paling at the base of the lower mandible; legs and feet fleshy brown, some with a 
bluish tinge ; claws brownish at the tips. 
Head and upper surface brownish olive, paling slightly on the rump and upper tail-coverts, each feather with a broad 
black, crescentic-shaped tip, imparting a scale-like appearance to the upper plumage ; wings dark brown, the 
secondary-coverts tipped and externally margined with dusky buff, the tips of the median series being the palest ; 
the primary-coverts, with the tips and inner webs, black, and a rufous-bulf wash on the outer portions of the 
feathers ; quills margined with yellowish brown, spreading over the outer webs of the innermost secondaries ; tail 
browmish olive, the three feathers next the outermost on each side blackish with pale tips. 
Pace and under surface rich buff, paling on the chin and abdomen into whitish buff, and darkening on the sides of the 
chest and flanks into olivaceous, each feather, except those of the gorge and abdomen, with a bold black crescentic 
tip ; ear-coverts with j)ale shafts and (as also the face) tipped less blackly than the under surface, the dark tips' 
talcing the form of a stripe on each side of the throat ; under wing-coverts black, with the terminal half of the 
feathers white ; under tail-coverts unmarked. 
Females are coloured exactly like the males. 
Obs. The subgenus Oreocincla, founded by Gould for the reception of some Thrushes with the peculiar type of 
marking above noticed, may, I think, be allowed to stand, not on account of this character, but because its 
