. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . xamined specimens of this species procuredin the hills north of Mussooree, in Nepal, at Darjiling, and inKarennee. 703. Oreocincla spiloptera. The Spotted-wing Thrush. Oreocincla spiloptera, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 142 (1847); id. Cat. p. 160 ; Legge, S. F. iii, p. 367; Hume, S. F. vh, p. 382 ; id. Cat. no. 372 ter; Oates in Humes N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. spiloptera {Blyth), Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 451, pi. spiloptera (Blyth), Seebohm, Cat. B. 31. v, p. 167. Coloration. Upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts ric
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . xamined specimens of this species procuredin the hills north of Mussooree, in Nepal, at Darjiling, and inKarennee. 703. Oreocincla spiloptera. The Spotted-wing Thrush. Oreocincla spiloptera, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 142 (1847); id. Cat. p. 160 ; Legge, S. F. iii, p. 367; Hume, S. F. vh, p. 382 ; id. Cat. no. 372 ter; Oates in Humes N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. spiloptera {Blyth), Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 451, pi. spiloptera (Blyth), Seebohm, Cat. B. 31. v, p. 167. Coloration. Upper plumage and lesser wing-coverts rich olive-brown tinged with russet; tail rusty olive-brown; wings darkbrown, broadly edged with olive-brown, the median and greatercoverts more or less black tipped with white; lores whitish; ear-coverts mixed white and black; lower plumage white, tinged with 156 TURDID^. grey on the sides of the breast and body; the cheeks, sides of thethroat and neck, the whole breast, and the upper half of theabdomen with fan-shaped or triangular black spots; axillaries. Fig. 3(J.—Head of Or. spiiojttera. white, tipped with dark brown ; under wing-coverts dark brown,tipped with white. Iris brown ; eyelid leaden grey ; bill blackish, pale at gape ; legsand feet dusky bluish grey or greyish fleshy ; claws dusky horn(Ler/ye). Length about 8-5; tail 3*2; wing 4; tarsus 1-4 ; bill fromgape 1*15. Distribution. Confined to Ceylon up to 4000 feet. Habits, §c. A nest of this bird was found by Legge in Januarycontaining two eggs bluish green freckled with rufous, andmeasuring 1*19 by *79. Genus ZOOTHERA, A7igors, 1831. In the genus Zoothera the sexes are alike, the under wing-covertsand axillaries of two colours, the colours in the one part transposedor reversed in the other, the lower plumage squamated, not distinctlybarred nor spotted, and the rictal bristles very numerous and anterior or supplementary bristles extend over the nostrils asin the Flycatchers, and Zoothera is the only genus o
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