OREOCINCLA. 553 



536. ZOOTHERA ANDROMED^E (Temminck). 



JAVAN GROUNB THRUSH. 



Myiothera andromedce "Kulh MS," Temminck, PI. Col. (1826), 2, no. 392. 

 Geocichla andromedw Seebohm, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 163. 

 Zoothera andromeda Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 138. 

 Geocichla andromeda Grant, Ibis (1906), 477. 



Mindanao (Goodfellow) . Java, Sunjatra, Lombok. 



"In the adult male in spring plumage the general color of the upper 

 parts is dark brown, approaching black on the head and on the margins 

 of the feathers of the back; feathers of lores and ear-coverts with pale 

 centers; no trace of eye-stripe; wings and tail not quite so black as the 

 back; chin and upper throat white, with narrow transverse terminal 

 black bands; cheeks pale slate-gray with broad terminal black bands; 

 lower throat and breast pale slate-gray; center of belly and under tail- 

 coverts huffish white; flanks black with large diamond-shaped white 

 centers ; axillars, basal half white, terminal half black ; lower under wing- 

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

 webs of the secondaries and many of the primaries white. Bill ab- 

 normally long, dark brown above and below ; wing with the fourth primary 

 slightly the longest, second primary about equal to the sixth; bastard 

 primary, 32 to 28 mm. Legs, feet, and claws dark brown. Wing, 124 

 to 122; tail, 77 to 71 ; culmen, 29 to 28 ; tarsus, 34 to 33. 



"It is not knowTi that there is any difference of plumage attributable 

 to either sex or season. Young in first plumage have pale ochraceous 

 shafts to most of the feathers of the upper parts and fan-shaped, 

 ochraceous terminal spots to the wing-coverts. The under parts are 

 also much suffused with ochraceous and the breast and flanks barred 

 with black, the diamond-shaped pale centers being irregular in shape." 

 (Seebohm.) 



Genus OEEOCINCLA Gould, 1838. 



"In the genus Oreocinda the sexes are alike, the under wing-coverts 

 and axillars are each of two colors, those on the axillars being transposed 

 or reversed in order on the under wing-coverts, the lower plumage is 

 distinctly barred or spotted, never squamated, and the rictal bristles are 

 few and confined to the gape. The tail is typically short and the upper 

 tail-coverts very ample. There is a distinct pattern on the under side 

 of the wing." (Oates.) 



