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Another small bird with habits similar to the last. An olive-brown bird with a chestnut-red cap. The lower parts are reddish yellow. Myiophoneus temmincki. The Himalayan whistling-thrush. Common at Darjeeling. Lioptila capistrata. The black-headed sibia, one of the most abundant birds about Darjeeling. Actinodura egertoni. The rufous bar-wing. A bird about the size of a bulbul.
At first I took this for a Himalayan whistling-thrush. I followed its movements through my field-glasses, and saw it alight on part of the gnarled and twisted trunk of a rhododendron tree. Closer inspection showed that the bird was a grey-winged ouzel. He had apparently caught sight of me, for his whole attitude was that of a suspicious bird with a nest in the vicinity.
To see this bird it is necessary to repair to some mountain stream. It is always in evidence in the neighbourhood of the dhobi's ghat at Naini Tal, and is particularly abundant on the banks of the Kosi river round about Khairna. At first sight the Himalayan whistling-thrush looks very like a cock blackbird. His yellow bill adds to the similitude.
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