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olivaceous ; chin and throat white, with a dark stripe from the 

 base of the lower mandible, becoming faint on the side of the 

 neck; breast, sides, and under wing-coverts pale ferruginous; 

 lower part of breast and belly white. 



Bill black above, yellow beneath ; irides dark brown ; legs 

 dusky yellow. Length 9| inches ; extent 14 ; wing 5 ; tail 83 ; 

 tarsus 1^, 



Other species of Geocichia not referred to in the text are G. 

 ei-ijthronota, Sclater, from Celebes, and G. layardi, Walden 

 (Ann. N. H. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 416), from Ceylon. My suspicion 

 of the identity of Turdus avensis, Gray, with T. interpres, of 

 Java, is confirmed, by Blyth. 



Hume has a new species of Thrush which he calls 



Geocichla tricolor. 

 Descr. Whole head, neck, throat, breast, and upper parts dusky 

 blackish slate- colour, almost quite black upon the top of 

 the head, greyer on the back, and browner on the quills and 

 lateral tail-feathers. Wing-lining, lateral portions of upper 

 abdomen, sides and tibial feathers bright orange-ferruginous; 



• centre of upper two thirds of abdomen, whole of lower two 

 thirds, vent, flanks, and lower tail-coverts, and. extreme tip 

 of the chin pure white. 



Length 8"5, wing 4*6, tail 3"2, bill at front 0*7, tarsus 1*1. 

 Bill yellow; legs and feet llesLy yellow. 



From Tipperah. 



36L Merula boulboul. Figured by Gould, B. Asia, 

 pt. xi. pi, 12. 



The bill is orange ; legs dingy yellow ; extent of wings 

 17 inches. Mr. Brooks, a most competent authority on this 

 point, describes the song as " most agreeable, rather more vai'ied 

 than that of the English Blackbird, and in a higher key.^' 

 This Blackbird visits the plains of India to some considerable 

 distance from the hills in winter. 



361 bis. Merula vulgaris ?. 



I obtained a young Blackbird, one of a party of six, near Gul- 

 murg, at a height of above 12,000 feet, in July. It measured 



