Bird9 of Celebes: Turdidae. 



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GENUS GEOCICHLA Kuhl. 



Structurally like 3Ierula, but the tail a little shorter and the bill somewhat 

 broader; recognisable by the broad band of white across the wing below on the 

 base of the secondaries and of some of the primaries. 



Found in Africa, Asia to Australia and N. America, accidental in Europe. 



* 209. GEOCICHLA ERYTHRONOTA Scl. 

 Celebes Ground-thrush. 



Geocichla erythronota (Ij Sclat., Ibis 1859, 113; (II) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 61, 113, 

 pi. VI, fig. 2; (3) Briigg., Abh. Ver. Bremen V, 1876, 63; (4) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 

 125; (5) Seeb., Cat. B. V, 1881, 165; (6) H.O.Forbes, P. Z. S. 1883, 588; (7) 

 Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 552; (8) Platen, Gefied. Welt 1887, 219; (9J M. & Wg., 

 Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1895, Nr. 8, p. 13; (10) Hart, Nov. Zool. 1896, 556; (11) id., ib. 

 1897, 1(31; (XII) Meyer, Vogelskel. 1897, H, pi. COXVn. 



a. Turdus erythronotus (1) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 260, Nr. 3795; (2) Rosenb., Malay. Arcliip. 

 1878, 272. 



"Moupu burik", Manado, Guillemard 7. 



Figures and descriptions. Walden //; Meyer ^//(skel.); Sclater 1; Seebohm 3. 



Nearly adult. Above chestnut, browner on head, more ochi-aceous on rump and upjier tail- 

 coverts; wings and tail blackish; the middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with 

 wliite, forming two bars; the basal third of the secondaries and I'ather more of the 

 inner webs of the primaries (except the thi'ee outermost) w-liite; the three outer tail- 

 feathers tipped with white, the outermost very broadly, the tlm-d very shghtly; two 

 patches on loral and malar region and on the ear-coverts white, remainder 

 of sides of head, submalar region and chest black, the last bordered by a buff 

 band, succeeded by a black one; throat mostly white; remaining under-parts 

 white, marked on the abdomen and sides with broad spots of black; flanks washed 

 with rufous; under wing-coverts white, the terminal part black (Celebes, Nr. 1914). 



Adult. Answers to the above description, but has the throat as well as the upper breast 

 black, and the band below this white, not buff. A male, Idndly lent to us by Mi-. 

 A. Nehrkorn, and one in the Sarasin Collection have the head shghtly inter- 

 mixed wath black, the middle of abdomen clear of black cross-bars, which occui-, 

 however, on the flanks, as in Lord Walden's plate. "L-is dark slaty feet nearly 

 white" (Meyer 4). "Bill horn-grey; feet yellowish bro\ni; iris brown" (Platen in 

 Mus. Nehrk.). 



Measurements. 



Winn; 



Tail 



Tarsus 



a. (Mus. Nehrk., Nr. 972) cT, Rurukan, 28. VIH. 84 . 112 76 32 



ft. (Nr. 1914) imm., Celebes 1 13 81 32 12 



c. (C 13869)ad., Lotta, Minahassa, l.Xn. 94 (Nat. ColLj 116 79 32 12 



d. (Sarasin Coll.) c? ad., Tomohon, 16. IV. 94 . . . 121 84 30 12 



e. fSarasin Coll) 2 ad- Rurukan, 24. ni. 94 ... 115 77 33 12 



Distribution. S. Celebes — Macassar (Wall. 1, 5); N. Celebes — Minahassa (Meyer 4, Guille- 

 mard 7. Platen 8, P.&F. Sarasinj; W. Celebes — Tawaya (Doherty 11). 



Bill from 

 nostril 



