550 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
less conspicuous on the flanks; the throat and eye-stripe are suffused 
with ochraceous.” (Seebohm.) 
A male from Apo Island, r Mindoro, measures: Wing, 126; 
tail, 97; culmen from base, 22; bill from nostril, 13; tarsus, 30. 
Genus GEOKICHLA “Boie” S. Miiller, 1835. 
Bill short and stout; bristles about bill short and weak; first primary 
a little shorter than primary-coverts; third to sixth primaries with outer 
webs emarginate; inner webs of quills light colored at base; axillars 
bicolored, the colors reversed on the under wing-coverts; tail short, 
about twice the tarsus. Under parts white, spotted with black. 
Species. 
a*. Head brownish chestnut; chin, throat, and chest black........ interpres (p. 550) 
a. Head ashy gray; chin and throat white, spotted or barred with black. 
b*. Median and greater wing-coverts with white tips forming two bars. 
cinerea (p. 551) 
b*?. No white spots on any of the upper wing-coverts.......... mindanensis (p. 552) 
533. GEOKICHLA INTERPRES (Temminck). 
KUHL’S GROUND THRUSH. 
Turdus interpres “Kuhl MS,” TemMiIncg, Pl. Col. (1828), 2, no. 458. 
Geocichla interpres SEEBOHM, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 166; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1903), 4, 132; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List 
(1906), 84. 
Basilan (Steere Hep.); Sulu (Platen) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 
Malay Peninsula, northwestern Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lombok, Sumbawa. 
“Tn the adult male in spring plumage the head is brownish chestnut, 
shading into orange-chestnut on the nape; the rest of the upper parts 
slate-gray; lores grayish white; no trace of eye-stripe; ear-coverts and 
cheeks black, the feathers of the former with white bases; innermost 
secondaries and quills dark ,brown; wing-coverts nearly black; median 
wing-coverts white; greater wing-coverts tipped with white; unemargin- 
ated portion of outside web of primaries pale slate-gray; tail brown, the 
outside feather on each side broadly tipped with white, and the next 
narrowly so; chin, throat, and upper breast black; rest of the under 
parts white, suffused with ochraceous on the flanks; the feathers of the 
lower breast with conspicuous fan-shaped black terminal spots, which 
become obscure on the flanks; axillars, basal portion white, terminal 
portion dark slate-gray; lower under wing-coverts, basal portion black, 
terminal portion white; basal portion of inner web of the secondaries 
and many of the primaries white. Bill dark brown above and below. 
Wing with the fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, second 
primary between the seventh and eighth, bastard primary, 24 to 21.5 
