MI HULA ALBOCIffclTAi
ME E U L A A L B IC INO TA [Royle).
WHITE-COLLARED OUZEL.
Turdus albocinctus, Royle, 111. Himal. Bot. p. lxxvii (1839).
Turdus albicollis (nee Vieill.), Royle, t. c. p. lxxvii, pi. viii. fig. 3 (1839).
Turdus collaris, Soret, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 2.
Merula nivicollis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeresj pi. civ. nos. 182, 183; id. in
Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844).
Merula albocincta, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 148 (1847); Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v.
p. 245 (1881).
Turdus albicinctus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 274 (1850).
Merula albicincta, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 127 (1890).
M. rostro et pedibus flavis: notseo nigro, torque collari et interscapulio summo albis : gutture et colli lateribus
albis: gastrseo reliquo nigro.
T h i s very distinct species of Ouzel is found throughout the Himalayas from Kashmir to Cachar and
Manipur.
I t is not mentioned in Colonel Unwin’s list of the Birds of Kashmir, but there is an adult male
; specimen fern that country in the Hume Collection. .Colonel Biddulph and Captain Stackhouse
Pinwill have procured specimens near Simla, and the Hume Collection contains examples from the
-interior of the N.W. Himalayas, from Kotegurh in March, Kotekhaie in February, and Bussahir in
November.
■ 111 _the Hume Collection is a specimen from the hills north of Masuri, and in the Lucknow
Priseum is also from the same district, as also'ftom Kota in Kumaon:(c/..Reid, Cat. Birds
uc now Mus. p. 114, 1890). General G. F. L. Marshall has found this Ouzel nesting near Naini
, mi the top of Mt. Cheena, 8000 feet above the sea (Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. ii; p.' 92). It t H i °f aduU anii y0Ung birds are in the Hodgsom Collection to rn Nepal, showing that it
|bree s wit in the province; but Dr. Scully only found the species about the Nepal Valley in winter,
Irh 1 B H I ^ B e' eTat' onA011 the hills, never lower than 7000 feet (Str. F. viii. p. 285, 1879)
Ihe late Mr. L. Mandelli obtained specimens in Sikhim, in February and April, and in the Seebohm ■■Hi °ne Daqiling, obtained in June. In Native Sikhim Mr. Mandelli’s collector» met
™th the spemes m February, March, and April, and young birds were procured in August.
1 W p K . H sPeclmens on the Chola' Range in Sikhim at heights from 11,000 to 13 000 feet
and a W Lachung in Upper Sikhim (J. A. S. Beng. Hi. pt. 2, p. 49, 1872);-. ' : '
fee noticed o n e 'o f ° b iailled in B h u ta n 01 in Assam> b u t M r- S tu a rt B a k e r says th a t
6 u v ^ stream rim f i " “ N ' I H H e 1 b a™ o n ce se en th is b ird , on a
I t — I B B H 0 f N in g l e ’ ^ 3 8 0 0 H H B 1 S “Ot shoot it, but
mistake in mv ide H B H U Sa* 0n a smaU saPliDg> aud 1 do not think I could have made a
“ S I H H H H 1 H H H SoC- I H i ^ I Hume did not, meet'
Colonel Godwin H a “ "P’6 of specimens, now in the British Museum, were obtained by
r 61 m'AusteI1 at Bemba in that State (J. A. S. Beng. xlvrpgfiO, 1876); I -