1. GEOCICHLA.. 155 



feet, and claws pale fle.sh-coloiir. Length of wiug 5-8 to 5-3 inches, 

 tail 4-4 to ;3-6, ciilmen 1-1 to 1-0, tarsus 1-32 to 1-2. 



It is not known that anj- change in the colour of the plumage is 

 attributable to sex or season. Birds of the year appear to be 

 unknown. Young in first phimxige are more ochraceous in colour 

 both above and below, and the spots are less distinctly crescentic. 



Examples from the Xorth-west Himalayas are much less ochra- 

 ceous in colour, and might almost be considered subspecitically dis- 

 tinct, in which case they would stand as G. parvirostris (Gould). 



The Himalayan Ground-Thrush breeds throughout the Himala3-as, 

 descending to the plains in the cold season, where it has been found 

 as far south as Central India and Tenasserim. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c. d. Ad. sk. 

 e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad.sk. 

 y. Juv. sk. 

 'h. Ad. sk. 

 i-o. Ad. sk. 

 2). Sternum. 



5. Geocichla lunulata. 



Lunulated Thru-sh, Lath. Gen. Sipi. Suppl. ii. p. 184 (1801). 

 Turdus luuulatus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. xlii (1801) ; VieUL N. 



Did. d'Higt. Xat. xx. p. 236 (1818) ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 218 



(1847) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 254. no. 3689 (18G9). 

 Tiu-dus varius, Pall, apud Vigors ^- Llorsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 218 



(1826). 

 Oreocincla novae-hollandite, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 145. 

 Oreocincla lunulata {Lath.), Gotild, B. Austr. iv. pi. 7 (1848) ; 



Reichenb. VHy. Neuholl. pp. 217, 299 (1840); Cab. Mm. LLein. i. 



p. 6 (1850) ; Sund. Journ. Orn. 1857, p. 161 : Gould. Handh. B. 



Austr. i. p. 439 (\SiSo, partim); Baiii.^ai/, Tr. Linn. Soc. X. S. IF. 



ii. p. 187 (1878). 



In the adult male in sjrrim/ plumagf the general colour of the 

 upper parts is olive-brown, each feather having a transverse terminal 

 crescent-shaped Vjlack band ; most of the feathers have pale shafts, 

 and many of them have an obscure j^ale transverse subterminal 

 band ; lores nearly white ; behind the eye a trace of eye-stripe ; 

 ■wing-coverts and innermost .secondaries shading from dark olive- 

 brown on the outside webs to olive-brown on the inside webs, 

 but, with the exception of the primary-coverts, wanting the black 

 terminal bands ; quills brown, the outside webs olive-brown ; 

 four central and terminal half of the two outside tail-feathers 

 olive-brown, the remaining three on each side dark olive-brown, 

 very dark on the inside web ; outer tail-feathers tipped with white, 

 and several of the others more or less obscurely tipped with pale 

 ochraceous, all more or less distinctly barred. tTnderparts white, 

 with a tinge of ochraceous on the breast, each feather with 

 a transverse terminal crescent-shaped black band, nearly obsolete 

 on the chin, centre ol belly, and under tail-coverts ; axillarics, basal 



