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, near 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 1 . Head brownish chestnut; chin, throat, and chest black interpres (p. 550) 



a 2 . Head ashy gray; chin and throat white, spotted or barred with black. 



6 1 . Median and greater wing-coverts with white tips forming two bars. 



cinerea (p. 551} 



6 2 . No white spots on any of the upper wing-coverts mindanensis (p. 552) 



533. GEOKICHLA INTERPRES (Temminck). 

 KTJHL'S GROUND THHTTSH. 



Turdus interpres "Kuhl MS," TEMMINCK, PI. Col. (1828), 2, no. 458. 

 Geocichla interpres SEEBOHM, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 166; SHABPE, 



Hand-List (1903), 4, 132; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List 



(1906), 84. 



Basilan (Steere Exp.) ; Sulu (Platen) ; Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). 

 Malay Peninsula, northwestern Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Lombok, Sumbawa. 



"In 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 



