GEOKICHLA. 551 



mm. Legs, feet, and claws flesh-color. Wing, 108 to 102; tail, 61 to 

 53; culmen, 19.5 to 18; tarsus, 29 to 28. The adult plumage of the 

 sexes appears to be alike, nor is it known that any important change takes 

 place by abrasion. 



Young in first plumage appear to have the whole of the upper parts 

 dull chestnut, each feather having a pale shaft and obscure pale center; 

 the white bars on the wings are suffused with chestnut, and the black on 

 the under parts is confined to two moustachial lines on the cheeks, the 

 rest being dull chestnut. This plumage is immediately molted to the 

 adult plumage in the first autumn, except that certain birds, which I take 

 to be females, have the slate-gray of the upper parts replaced by dark 

 olive-brown." (Seebohm.) 



534. GEOKICHLA CINEREA Bourns and Worcester. 



MINDORO GKOUND THEUSH. 



Geocichla cinerea Bourns and Wobcestek, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. 

 Papers (1894), 1, 23; Shakpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 133; McGregob 

 and WoBCESTEE, Hand-List (1906), 84. 



Mindoro (Bourns cC- Worcester, McGregor) . 



Male. — Above black ; feathers of head, neck, back, rump, and scapulars 

 edged with ashy gray; lores white, the hair-like tips of the shafts black; 

 eye-circle white, broken above and below center of eye by a black spot; 

 feathers of jaw and ear-coverts white with black tips, between these areas 

 the cheeks are black; chin feathers white, their shafts with black hair- 

 like tips; remainder of under parts white, the feathers of throat, chest, 

 and sides of body and abdomen with large fan-shaped black tips, forming 

 an almost solid black pectoral patch, but posteriorly becoming gradually 

 smaller; crissum and middle of abdomen without spots and washed with 

 ocherous buff, most heavily on the longer tail-coverts; a dusky wash on 

 flanks ; wing-feathers blackish ; outer webs of primaries edged with gray ; 

 inner webs of quills, except first two, with a diagonal band of light buff or 

 white; alula and primary- and secondary-coverts black; greater and 

 median coverts tipped with white forming two bars ; edge of wing white ; 

 axillars white, tipped with blackish, these colors reversed on under wing- 

 coverts; tail blackish, outermost rectrices each with a terminal white 

 spot on inner web. Length, about 200 mm. A male measures: Wing, 

 115; tail, 70; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 32; 

 middle toe with claw, 29. 



Female. — The only female examined is very similar to the male, but 

 the ocherous wash of the under parts is lighter and the outer webs of 

 the primary-coverts are marked with white forming a short band. Bill 

 black, base of lower mandible whitish; iris very dark brown; legs and 

 nails white. Wing, 112 ; tail, 63 ; culmen from' base, 22 ; bill from nostril, 

 13 ; tarsus, 30. 



