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GEOCICHLA KILIMENSIS, Neumann. 
NEUMANN'S GROUND-THRUSH. 
Geocichla gurneyi kilimensis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1900, p. 310. 
G. inter G. gurneyi et G. piaggie intermedia, ut videtur, pileo dorsoque olivascentibus рам о rufo lavatis. 
Mr. Oscar NEUMANN considers that the bird from Kilimanjaro is not the true G. gurneyi of 
South-eastern Africa, but requires to be separated as a distinct form. He procured a female 
specimen at Kifinika, and he says that this is intermediate between @. gurneyi and 6. piaggie of 
Shoa, having the olive colour of the head and back slightly washed with rufous, but the head is not 
nearly so red as in the figures of 6. piaggie in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds” or in Seebohm's * Monograph.’ 
ТЕ is also smaller than typical G. gurneyi, of which a Pondoland specimen in the Berlin Museum has 
the wing 98 mm. instead of 112 mm. 
The British Museum has a fair series of G. gurneyi from Nyasaland, and it is to be noticed that 
there is a slight wash of russet-colour on the lower back and rump, but some specimens are as olive 
in colour as typical G. gurneyi, so that additional material will be necessary before we can express an 
opinion on G. kilimensis as a distinct race. 
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GEOCICHLA AUDACIS, Hartert. 
KUHN’S GROUND-THRUSH. 
Geocichla audacis, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. xliii (1899). 
G. similis G. peroni, sed notæo concolore et saturatiore castaneo, præpectore et corporis lateribus saturatioribus, 
castaneo-rufis, ala breviore, distinguenda. 
Mr. Heısrıcn Kin, who has done some very successful work in the exploration of the Moluccas, as 
a naturalist, visited the little-known island of Dammer, in the south of the Banda Sea, in 1898, and 
among other interesting species of birds he discovered the new Ground-Thrush which has been ` 
named after him by Mr. Hartert. Itis one of the group of rufous-backed Thrushes peculiar to the 
Malay Archipelago. 
Mr. Hartert describes 6. audacis (which is the Latin equivalent of “ Kiihn,” a daring personage) 
as being allied to G. peroni of Timor, but with the upper surface more uniform and of a much 
deeper chestnut-rufous colour, with the chest and sides of the body darker and more chestnut-rufous 
than in G. peroni, and with a shorter wing, measuring no more than 102-104 mm., whereas in 
G. peroni the wing is at least 110 mm. There is no perceptible difference in the colouring of 
the sexes. 
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