1. GEOCICHLA. 1G3 



margins, and smaller and smaller buffish-white centres, until, on 

 tlie sides of the breast and Hanks, they become brown, with butf 

 shafts. Under tail-coverts brown, with white tips shading into 

 chestnut at the edges ; axillaries, basal half white, terminal half 

 dark brown ; lower under wing-coverts, basal half dark brown, ter- 

 minal half huffish white ; basal portion of inner web of the secon- 

 daries and many of the primaries rich buff; inner margin of quills 

 scarcely paler than the rest of under surface. Bill abnormally long, 

 dark brown above, scarcely paler below ; rictal bristles numerous 

 but slender. Wing with the third, fourth, and fifth primaries nearly 

 equal and longest, second primary intermediate in length between 

 the sixth and seventh, bastard primarj- l-2o inch. Legs, feet, and 

 claws darkish brown. Length of wing 4'85 to 4'7 inches, tail 'S'O 

 to 29, culmen 1-34 to 1-3, tarsus 1-18 to 1-15. 



It is not known that there is any difference in the colour between 

 the 7nale and female, or between spring and autumn plumage. Birds 

 of the year, possibly more or less of tlie second year, have ochra- 

 ceous tips to the greater and median wing-coverts. Young in first 

 plumage have pale shaft-lines and dark transverse terminal bars to 

 the feathers of the back and upper tail-coverts, and the wing-coverts 

 are conspicuously tipped with huffish chestnut. 



The Long-billed Ground-Thrush breeds in the Himalayas from 

 Sikkim to Assam. It is also found in the north and central portions 

 of the Tenasserim provinces, and has been recorded from Afghanistan. 

 It is a hill bird, and is not known to be migratory. 



a. Ad. sk. Siani. Purchased. 



b, c. Juv. sk. Upper ludia. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



15. Geocichla andromedse. 



Myiothera andromodaB, Kuhl,fiile Temm. PL Col ii. no. 392 (1826). 

 Myiophaga andromedpe (Tnnm.), Less. Traifc, p. 395 (1831). 

 Zoothera andromedfb (Temm.), Hartl. Syst. Vvrz. p. 41 (1844); Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 2.13 (ISoO). 

 Zoothera andromedon, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 218 (1847) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 261. no. 3813 (1869). 



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

 upper parts is dark brown, a^jproaching black on the head and on 

 the margins of the feathers of the back ; the feathers of the ^res 

 and car-coverts with pale centres ; no trace of eye-stripe ; wings 

 and tail not quite so black as the back. CMn and upper throat 

 white, with narrow transverse terminal black bands ; cheeks pale 

 slate-grey, with broad terminal black bands; lower throat and 

 breast pale slate-grey ; centre of belly and under tail-coverts huffish 

 white ; flanks black, with large diamond-shaped white centres : axil- 

 laries, basal half white, terminal half black ; lower under wing- 

 coverts, basal half black, terminal half white ; basal portions of 

 the iuner webs of the secondaries and many of the primaries white. 

 Eill abnormally long, dark brown above and below. Wing with the 



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