162 TCKDID.K. 



tail brown, the outside feathers obscurely ti])ped with white ; 

 checks, sides of the neck, and breast brown, with obscure subter- 

 minal dark spots on each feather ; chin and throat white, with 

 dark brown fan-shaped terminal spots on some of the feathers ; 

 flanks brown, the feathers obscurely barred with dark brown ; 

 centre of belly and lowest flanks white, many of the feathers ob- 

 scurely tipped with brown. Under tail-coverts dark brown, with 

 white tips ; axillaries, basal half white, terminal half dark brown, 

 narrowly edged with white; lower under wing-coverts, basal por- 

 tion dark brown, terminal portion white ; basal half of inner web 

 of the secondaries and of many of the primaries huffish white. Bill 

 abnormally long, both mandibles obscurely serrated ; the upper man- 

 dible curved considerably over the lower, dark brown, lower man- 

 dible slightly paler ; rictal bristles long, numerous, but slender. 

 Wing with the fourth primary slightly the longest, second primary 

 between the sixth and seventh, bastard primary 1-7 to 1-5 inch. 

 Legs, feet, and claws darkish brown. Length of wing 5'75 to 5"1 

 inches, tail 3-7 to 3-1, culmen 1-6 to 1"3, tarsus 1-4 to 1-25. 



It is not known that any difference of plumage can be traced to 

 sex or season. Young in Jirst plumage have ochi'aceous shafts 

 to the feathers of the head and back, ochraceous tips to the M'ing- 

 coverts and innermost secondaries, the nnderparts generally suf- 

 fused with ochraceous, and more profusely spotted and barred. 



The t'aw-billed Ground-Thrush breeds in the Himalayas, from 

 Assam westwards almost to the confines of Cashmere. It is not 

 known to be migratory. 



rt, h. Ad. sk. Near Simla. Capt. Stackhouse Piuwill [P.]. 



c. Ad. st. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. (Type of 



Tiifdus rostratus, Hodgs.) 



d. Ad. St. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 e-A-.Ad.&juv.sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Bootan (Peniherton). India Museum. 



m. Ad. sk. Assam {Griffith). India Museum. 



14. Geocichla marginata. 



Zoothera marginata, Bh/th, J. A. S. Bene/, xvi. p. 141 (1847); BJijth, 

 Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 160 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 253 (1850) ; 

 Horsf. &• Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 102 (1854); Graij, 

 Han'd-l. B. i. p. 261. uo. 3812 (18G9) ; Gudiv.-Anst. J. A. S. Benq. 

 xxxix. pt. 2, p. 268 (1870) ; Hume, Nests and Eyqs Ind. B. p. 226 

 (1873) ; Blijth 4- Wald. B. Burm. p. 100 (1875) {'Hume 8,- Davison, 

 Stray Feath. vi. p. 246 (1878). 



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

 upper parts is russet-brown, approaching chestnut brown on the 

 outer webs of the quills, wing-coverts, and innermost secondaries ; 

 lores and ear-coverts brown, with pale centres; no trace of eye- 

 stripe ; tail russet-brown ; chin and upper throat nearly white, 

 bounded on each side by a brown monstachial line ; centre of belly 

 white, the feathers gradually having broader and broader brown 



