Mr. J. Gould 0)1 a new Species of Thrush. 401 



Obtained in Celebes by Di*. Meyer, and represented by a 

 single example in such bad order that I am unable to describe 

 it more minutely. Many of the abdominal feathers seem to 

 be pure white, and the chin, throat, and ear-coverts to be pale 

 fulvous. 



XLIII, — On a new Species of Thrush pertaining to the Oeniis 

 Oreocincla. By John Gould, F.R.S. &c. 



Oreocincla lodura^ Gould. 



Crown of the head, back, and wing-coverts orange-brown, 

 becoming of a paler and brighter tint on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, each feather being margined with blackish brown; 

 four middle tail-feathers of the same colour as the rump ; the 

 three next on each side dark brown, very slightly tipped 

 with buffy white ; the external feather light brown, with at 

 least an inch of buffy white on the tip of the inner web ; 

 circle round the eye, lores, and a patch on the centre of 

 the ear-coverts buffy white ; throat and all the under surface 

 white, each feather tipped with a lunate mark of black, which 

 is broadest and blackest on the chest and flanks ; across the 

 breast a wash of buff; axillaries white at the base, black on 

 their apical half ; the last row of the lesser wing-coverts tipped 

 with yellowish white ; greater coverts orange-brown, tipped 

 with yellowish ; spurious wing and primaries dark brown, 

 margined externally with orange-brown ; secondaries dark 

 brown on their internal and orange-brown on their external 

 webs ; vent and under tail-coverts buffy white, without luna- 

 tions. 



Total length 9j inches; bill !§■, wing 5§-, tail 3f, tarsi !§■. 



Habitat. Queensland and Northern Australia. 



Bemarh. After carefully comparing this bird with examples 

 of the genus from every other part of Australia, from Java, 

 the Philippines, China, and India, I cannot come to any other 

 conclusion than that it is distinct from the whole of them. In 

 comparison with the Australian members of the genus, it is a 

 smaller, much neater, and more compact bird, and has the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts orange-brown instead of olive- 

 brown ; the bill also is smaller, narrower, and more delicately 

 formed than that of the Tasmanian and New-South-Wales 

 species. 



