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152 second and fifth nearly equal, and about a quarter inch shorter than longest ; wing- 5'5 O. damna, p. 152.

b". Third, fourth, and fifth quills equal and longest ; second rather shorter than sixth, and about half inch shorter than longest ; wing 5 O. nilyiriensis, p. 153.

b'. Ground-colour of lower plumage ochraceous buff O. imbricata, p. 154.

/-. Feathers of upper plumage plain without darker margins or tips. c'. Lower plumage with black crescentic tips ; wing over 5. c". Wing-coverts not tipped ; tail not ex- ceeding 4-3 O. mollissima, p. 154.

d". Wing-coverts tipped ; tail about 4*7 . . O. dixoni, p. 155.

d'. Lower plumage with black triangular spots ; wing about 4 O. spiloptera, p. 155.

698. Oreocinda daiima. Tlie Small-billed Mountain-ThrusJi.

Turdus dauma, Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 362 (1790). Oreocincla dauma (Lath.), Blyth, Cat. p. 160 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. i,

Sf K 2nd ed. ii, p. 107.

Geocichla dauma (Lath.), Seebohm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 154 ; Gates, B. B. i, p. 6.

Coloration. After the autumn moult the whole upper plumage is ochraceous brown, each feather with a crescentic black bar at the tip, preceded by a fulvous patch ; wing-coverts with large bright fulvous tips, the median series blackish above the tips ; primary-coverts black, with a broad band of fulvous on the outer webs ; 'quills dark brown, margined on the outer web with fulvous ; the four middle tail-feathers olive-brown, the next three pairs blackish with white tips, the outermost feathers blackish, with the terminal third fulvous ; sides of the head pale fulvous variegated with black; chin, middle of throat, and middle of abdomen white; remainder of lower plumage white, tinged with fulvous, each feather with a terminal band of black, and with a subterminal lighter patch ; under tail-coverts white, some of the feathers tipped with black; axillaries with basal half white and terminal half black ; under wing-coverts black and terminally white.

In summer the plumage becomes very dull, the fulvous parts fading to olive-brown.

Upper mandible and middle of lower dark brown, remainder of bill pale brown, the gape tinged with orange ; inside of mouth yellowish ; eyelid and ocular region plumbeous ; iris dark hazel-brown ; legs and claws fleshy white.

Length about 10-5; tail 3*8; wing 5*6; tarsus 1 '3 ; bill from gape 1-2.

Distribution. The Himalayas from Hazara and Kashmir to Assam,