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and a few on the flanks with nearly hlack fan-shaped terminal spots ; 

 axillaries, basal half white, terminal halt' brown ; under wing-coverts, 

 basal portion dark brown, terminal portion white. Bill dark brown, 

 paler at the base of the under mandible. Wing with the fourth 

 and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second primary about 

 equal to the eighth, bastard primary U-9 to U-So inch. Legs, feet, 

 and claws greyish brown. Length of wing 4"0 to 3'6 inches, tail 3-4 

 to 3-0, culmen 0'91 to 0-85, tarsus 1'4 to 1'3, 



The fimale is said to be less olivaceous on the upper parts than 

 the male. Immediately aftt'i' the autumn moult the prevailing 

 colour of the upper parts of both sexes is russet-brown. Birds of 

 the year probably differ little from adults. Young in the first 

 plumage have ochraceous shaft-lines to the feathers of the upper 

 parts ; the spots at the tips of the wing-coverts and the ground- 

 colour of the underparts are ochraceous. 



The Spotted Ground-Thi-ush appears to be confined to the central 

 hill country of Ceylon, where it is a resident, ascending the mountains 

 to an elevation of 4000 feet, and extending its range on the west 

 and south sides of the islaud almost to the sea. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Ceylon. Purchased. 



d, e,f. Ad. sk. Nuwera Ellia, Ceylon. Mr. E. Boate [C.]. 



22. Geocichla guttata. 



Tardus ffuttatus, Vigors, F. Z. S. 1831, p. 1)2 ; Smith, III. Zool. S. 

 Afr., Birds, pi. xxxix. (1839) ; Grat/, Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 269 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 128 (1867); Graij, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 253.. no. .3670 (1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 21 

 (1871) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 200 (1876). 



Psophocichla guttata (Vigors), Cab. Jo^irn. Orn. 1860, p. 182. 



General colour of the upper parts fidvous brown, somewhat darker 

 on the head and inclining to olive-brown on the upper tail-coverts ; 

 lores nearly white ; no trace of eye-stripe ; ear-coverts brownish 

 white, tipped with black ; quills brown, the unemarginated portion 

 of the outside webs ochraceous brown ; lesser wing-coverts fulvous 

 brown, with small terminal fan-shaped ochraceous spots ; median 

 wing-coverts dark brown, with large terminal fan-shaped white 

 spots ; greater wing-coverts similar, but the white spots principally 

 confined to the outside webs ; primary-coverts dark brown, with 

 long subterminal ochraceous spots on the outside webs ; innermost 

 secondaries fulvous brown, with obscure ochraceous fan-shaped 

 terminal spots; six central tail-feathers uniform fulvotis brown, three 

 outer ones on each side darker on the iuside webs ; outer tail-feathers 

 very conspicuously tipped with white, especially on the inside webs, 

 the next two on each side less conspicuously tipped. Underparts 

 white, with a slight shade of ochraceous on the breast, the feathers 

 with terminal fan-shaped black spots, which are nearly obsolete on 

 the centre of the throat and belly, and quite so on the lower flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, basal half white, terminal 



