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is white ; and the distribution of white marks is the same as in the 

 fully adult. Males after the first autumn moult are similar to 

 those just described, but the centres of the feathers of the upper 

 abdomen and sides of the body are white and the tips darker than 

 the other parts, causing a barred appearance ; they have also a 

 rufous baud across the breast, the remains of the nestling plumage. 

 The nestling is unknown. 



Female. The whole upper plumage, wings, and tail olive-brown 

 with a slaty tinge on the rump ; the wing-coverts tipped with 

 buff ; the outer webs of quills tinged with rufescent ; the outer 

 tail-feathers narrowly tipped white ; an indistinct buff supercilium 

 to the nape ; sides of the head mixed brown and buff ; cheeks buff 

 bordered below by a dusky stripe ; chin and throat buff ; breast 

 pale buff, the feathers tipped and margined with brown ; middle of 

 abdomen white ; sides of the body olivaceous brown obsolelely 

 barred darker ; under tail-coverts white with basal brown margins ; 

 axillaries white tipped olive- brown ; under wing-coverts olive- 

 brown tipped white. 



Adult males have the bill black ; iris deep brown ; front of legs, 

 feet, and claws greenish yellow ; back of legs dirty yellow. Females 

 have the iris dark brown ; the upper mandible very dark brown ; 

 the lower mandible and gape to angle of gonys dirty yellow ; legs, 

 feet, and claws orange-yellow {Hume Sf Davison). 



Length about 9 ; tail 3-6 : wing 4*8 ; tarsus 1*1 ; bill from 

 gape 1*1. • 



Distribution. A winter visitor to the eastern portions of the 

 Empire. This species has been obtained on Muleyit and Nwalabo 

 mountains in Tenasserim ; at Toungngoo ; in Karennee ; and in 

 Manipur. It has also occurred in the Andamans, a female speci- 

 men from these islands having been named 0. inframarginata by 

 Blyth. In winter this bird is found from China to Java, and it 

 summers in Siberia and Japan. 



685. Geocichla cyanonotus. The White-throated Ground- 

 Thrush. 



Tardus cyanotus, Jard. ,y Selby, III. Orn. i, pi. xlvi (1828). 

 Geocichla cyanotus (J. $ S.), Blyth, Cat. p. 163 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, 



p. 191 ; Jerd. B. 1. i, p. 517 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt, ii, 



p. 179; Hume, J. A. 8. B. xxxix, pt, ii, p. 118; id. N. $ E. 



p. 229 ; id. Cat. no. 354 ; Davison, S. F. x, p. 374 ; Seebohm, Cat. 



B.M.y,]). 172; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 171; Oates, in Hume's 



N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 98. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hiud neck and sides 

 of the neck, breast, abdomen, and sides of the body golden rufous, 

 the crown tinged with greenish ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 white ; back*, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 slaty blue ; the median wing-coverts broadly tipped with white ; 

 quills dark brown, margined on the outer webs with pale slaty; 

 tail slaty blue, the outer feathers tipped pale ; lores, cheeks, chin, 



