OREOCINCLA. 553 
536. ZOOTHERA ANDROMEDZ (Temminck). 
JAVAN GROUND THRUSH. 
Myiothera andromede “Kulh MS,” TemMinck, Pl. Col. (1826), 2, no. 392, 
Geocichla andromede SEEBOHM, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 163. 
Zoothera andromeda SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 188. 
Geocichla andromeda GRANT, Ibis (1906). 477. 
Mindanao (Goodfellow). Java, Sumatra, Lombok. 
“Tn 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 buffish 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. 
“Tt is not known 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 OREOCINCLA Gould, 1838. 
“In the genus Oreocincla 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.) 
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