154 TrRiiii)-Tc. 



Xothing is known of any variations of colour which may be attri- 

 butable to sex, season, or age. 



The Javan Ground-Thrush has hitherto only been found in Java, 

 where it is supposed to be a resident. 



a. Ad. sk. Java (Horsfield). India Museum. 



(Tj'pe of Tvrdus varius, Pall, apud Horsf., Oreocincla horsjieldi, Bonap., 

 and Oreocincla malaijana, Sund.) 



Other examples of this species are in the Museums of Leyden, 

 Berlin, and Hamburg, and in my own collection. 



4. Geocichla dauma. 



Dauma Thrush, Lath. Gtn. Si/n. Suppl. i. p. 145 (1787). 



Turdus dauma, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. m2 (1790) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 218 (1847) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 254. no. 3691 (1869). 

 Oreocincla parvirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-37, p. 136. 

 Turdus varius, Horsf. apud Jerd. Madras Journ. p. 254 (1839). 

 Turdus whitei, Eyton ajmd Bhjth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 98 



(1843), apud Gray, Cut. Mamni. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodgs. p. 80 



(1846). 

 Oreocincla dauma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 142 (1847) ; Blijth, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 160 (1849) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 6 (1850) ; 



Horsf. Sj- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 193 (1854) ; Sund. 



Journ. Orn. 1857, p. 161 ; Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 533 (1862) ; Ball, 



Str. F. 1874, p. 408; Blyth S^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 100 (1876); Hume, 



Sir. F. 1875, p. 115 ; Armstrong, Str. F. 1876, p. 323 ; Hume <§• 



Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 256 (1878). 



In the adult male in spring plumage the general colour of the 

 x;pper parts is ochraceous brown, each feather having a transverse 

 terminal crescent-shaped black band ; most of the feathers have 

 pale shafts and a more or less distinct ochraceous transverse 

 subterminal band, very conspicuous on the head and neck; lores 

 nearly white ; no trace of eye-stripe : wing-coverts and innermost 

 secondaries shading from dark olive-brown on the inside webs to 

 ochraceous brown on the outside Avebs, but, with the exception of 

 the primary-coverts, wanting the black terminal bands ; quills 

 brown, the outside webs ochraceous ; four central and terminal half 

 of the two outside tail-feathers ochraceous brown, the remaining 

 three on each side very dark olive-brown ; four outside tail-feathers 

 on each side more or less distinctly tipped with white, and aU more 

 or less obscurely barred. Underparts -white, with a more or less 

 distinct tinge of ochraceous on the breast, each feather with a trans- 

 verse terminal crescent-shaped black band, nearly obsolete on the chin, 

 centre of belly, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, basal half white, 

 terminal half black ; under wing-coverts, basal portion black, ter- 

 minal portion white ; inner margin of quills very pale buff. BiU dark 

 brown above, basal half of under mandible pale brown. Wing with 

 the third and fourth primaries nearly equal and longest ; second 

 primary generally half an inch longer than the sixth, but a trifle 

 shorter than the fifth ; bastard primary 1-1 to 0-7 inch. Legs, 



