1. GKOCICHLA. 153 



White's Ground-Thrush hrectls in South-central and South-eastern 

 Siberia and Northern Chiu.a, stra;rgliu^ occasionally but accidentally 

 into Europe on miKratiou, and wintering in South Japan, South 

 China, and the Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Slianphai. Shangrhai Mus. [P.I- 



d. Ad. sk. Yokohama {Pn/er). 11. Seebohm, Esq. [P.J. 



e. Skeleton. England {Wai-jmck). Purchased. 



2. GeocicMa hancii. 



Oreocincla hancii, SwHithoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 27o ; id. Ibis, 1863, 



p. .304. 

 Oreocincla varia {Pallas), apud Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 367 



(parfiin). 



This species differs from the preceding in having the general 

 colour of the upper parts greyish brown instead of ochraceous brown. 

 It is also a somewhat larger bird, measuring as under : — Length of 

 wing 6-6 inches, tail 4-G, culmen 1-15, tarsus I'o. The number of 

 tail-feathers is fourteen. 



Xothingis known of its changes of plumage. 



The Eormosan Ground-Thrush is supposed to be peculiar to the 

 island of Formosa, where it is probably a resident. 



The British iluseum does not possess an example of this species. 

 The type is in the Swinhoe collection in my possession, a second skin 

 is in the Twceddale collection in the possession of Capt. "NVardlaw 

 Ramsay, and a third in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes in 

 Paris. 



3. Geocichia horsfieldi. (Plate X.) 



Turdus varius, Pallas, apud Ilorsjield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 149 



(1820). 

 Turdus hmulatus, Lat/i. apudJSund. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1840, p. 37. 

 Oreocincla horsfieldi, Bonap. Eev. et Mar;. Zool. May 1857, p. 205 



(1857). 

 Oreocincla maLiynna, Sinid. Jonni. Orn. May 1857, p. 161. (T7ie 



objectionable habit <if anttdatiiiff practised bi/ this Journal males it 



prabable that Bonaparte's name has the priority in actual date of 



publication.) 

 Tardus malavanus (Sund.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 254. no. 3688 



(1860). 



This species differs from the two preceding in being a decidedly 

 smaller bird. The general colour of the upper parts is a rich 

 russet-brown, and the subterminal bands across the feathers arc 

 confined to the feathers of the head and neck. It most resembles 

 G. hcinii (Cab.) in colour, but has the subterminal bands on the head 

 more marked, and differs also from that species in having fourteen 

 tail-feathers. The second primary is intermediate in length between 

 the fifth and sixth, or sixth and seventh. Length of wing 5-4 to 

 5-25 inches, tail 4-0 to 3-4, culmen 1-22 to 112, tarsus 1-35. 



