1. GEOCICHXA. 179 



terminal band, black on the lowei- breast, brown on the flanks, and 

 obsolete on the centre of the bell)' ; the under tail-coverts are white, 

 margined, except towards the tips, -with bi'own ; the white on the 

 under surface of the wing, so characteristic of the genus, is some- 

 what ochraceous. The male in Jirst tvi.ater j^^umaije is also appa- 

 rently somewhat ochraceous on the under surface of the wing and 

 at the tips of some of the greater wing-coverts. Youncj in Jirst 

 plunKdjc have pale shaft-lines to the feathers of the head and back ; 

 the terminal spots on the wing-coverts are ochraceous ; and the 

 feathers on the throat and breast are ochraceous with broad black 

 terminal bars. 



The Pied Ground-Thrush breeds in the Himalayas, from Nepal 

 westwards almost to tlio confines of Cashmere. In the cold season 

 it migrates to the plains of India, its winter range extending as far 

 south as Ceylon. 



Purchased. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. (Tyiie 



of Oirucincki micropns, Hodgs.^ 

 Capt. Stackhouse Piuwill [P.J. 

 Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 

 Dr. Jerdon [P.]. (Typeof Z'w/-f/«<s 



icardii, Jerd.) 

 India Museum. 

 Capt. Vincent Legge [P.]. (Type 



of Oreocincla jJecioralis, Legge.) 



36. Geocichla pinicola. 



Turdus pinicola, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1850, pp. .'3.34, 3(32 ; id. P. Z. S. 18G0, 

 p. 2G0; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. C. pi. 1 (18(32); id. P. Z. S. 18G4, 

 p. 172 ; Sumichrad, Mem. Bust. Soc. X. H. i. p. .543 (1869) ; Gray, 

 Hund-l. B. i. p. 258. no. 3771 (18G9); Hcl. li( Salv. Nomencl. Av. 

 Keotr. p. 2 (1873); Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Cent.- Amer. Zool. Aves, 

 i. p. 23 (1879). 



Turdus pa^cilopterus, Licht. M/is. Berol.,Jide Sclatcr, Cat. Am. B. 

 p. G (18G2, tiec Vigors). 



In the adult male in sprinrj j5?Hm(7^e the general colour of the 

 Tipper parts is dark brown, the feathers of the head, nape, and upper 

 back with light shafts and pale outer webs, and the outside and 

 longest upper tail-coverts broadly tipped with huffish white; lores 

 and ear-covcrts brown, with paler markings; some of the paler 

 outer webs of the feathers behind and above the eye more pro- 

 nounced, showing traces of an eye-stripe ; outer webs of greater 

 ■wing-coverts huffish white, except towards their tips ; innermost 

 secondaries and primarj'-coverts paler towards the tips ; primaries 

 and secondaries more or less broadly tipped with greyish white ; 

 basal third of primaries, a spot at the angle of emargination, and 

 the basal portion of the margin of the outside web of secondaries 

 white ; tail dark brown, tlie outside web of tlic outside feather on 

 each side white ; all the tail-feathers broadly tipped with white, 

 the pale tips becoming narrower and greyer towards the centre of 

 the tail. Cliin aud upper throat obscurely streaked white, brown, 

 and chestnut ; lower throat and breast nearly uniform dark brown ; 



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