. Birds. Birds. TURDOIDES. 191 a . Eai--coverts blackish and darker than the rest of the head 7'. yriseus (jriseus, p. 193. h'. Ear-coverts same as the rest of the head 7'. //. stria/.ns, p. 194. e. Tail rufous; primaries without pale edges. c'. Throat and breast mottled with brown , T. somervillei, p. 194. C. Throat and breast uuiforml}' rufous. T. rufescens, p. 195. D. Throat pale rufous, breast dark rufous. 7\ cinereifrons,-p. 196. (183) Turdoides terricolor terricolor. The Bejcgal Jungle-J^abbler. Pastor terricolor llodgs., J. A. S. B., v, p. 771 (1836) (Nepal). Crateropus cunorus. Blauf.
. Birds. Birds. TURDOIDES. 191 a . Eai--coverts blackish and darker than the rest of the head 7'. yriseus (jriseus, p. 193. h'. Ear-coverts same as the rest of the head 7'. //. stria/.ns, p. 194. e. Tail rufous; primaries without pale edges. c'. Throat and breast mottled with brown , T. somervillei, p. 194. C. Throat and breast uuiforml}' rufous. T. rufescens, p. 195. D. Throat pale rufous, breast dark rufous. 7\ cinereifrons,-p. 196. (183) Turdoides terricolor terricolor. The Bejcgal Jungle-J^abbler. Pastor terricolor llodgs., J. A. S. B., v, p. 771 (1836) (Nepal). Crateropus cunorus. Blauf. & Gates, i, p. 110. Vernacular names. Chcctarhia(Beng.); Pengi/a-maina( the ) ; >Sat Bhai, Jangli-kh)/r, Ghonghai (Hind.); Pedda-Sida (Tel.) ; KiUch-hatchia (Behar). Description. Upper plumage, coverts and inner secondaries pale brown, cinereous on the head and rump, slightly fulvous on. 31.—Head of T. t. terricolor. the upper tail-coverts, the back with dark brown streaks and whitish shaft-stripes; tail brown, paler towards the base and darker towards the end, which is tipped with white and cross-rayed ; wings dark brown, edged with ashy on the outer webs; lores whitish with a narrow black line above them; sides of the head like the crown; chin and throat cinereous, faintly cross-barred darker; breast fulvous ashy with whitish shafts; abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts fulvous ; the sides tiuged with brown and with faint white shafts. Colours of soft parts. Iris white, yellowish white or creamy white; orbital skin pale yellow ; legs and claws yellow, chrome- yellow, fleshy-yellow or yellowish white; bill chrome-yellow, yellowish white, dirty whitish or, rarely, pale horny-yellow. Measurements. Length 250 to 260 mm.; wing 103 to 110 mm.; tail 108 to 115 mm.; tarsus about 32 to 34 mm.; culmen about 25 to 26 mm. Distribution. >s^orthern India from the , Eastern Eajpu-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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