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GEOCICHLA DUMASI, Rothschild. | 
DUMAS' GROUND-THRUSH. | | 
Poy Geocichla dumasi, Rothschild, Bull. В. O. С. viii. p. xxx (1899); Hartert, Nov. Zool. viii. p. 173 
rf (1809), 
G. similis С. dohertyi, sed pileo dorso concolore, facie laterali haud albo notata: mento, gutture et ргересіоге 
nigris distinguenda. 
ШШ THIs species was discovered in Buru, one of the Molucca Islands, by Mr. Dumas, who was for some 
. Ише an assistant of Mr. Alfred Everett, the celebrated Malayan traveller. After the death of the 
aie latter gentleman, one of the most devoted servants of science that ever lived, Mr. Dumas visited 
ІІІ several of the Moluccan and Рарпап Islands, and discovered some remarkable new species of birds, 
ар of which the Ground-Thrush of Buru is not the least interesting. It has only been possible in 
recent years to penetrate to the mountains in the interior of some of the Molucca Islands, and 
Dr. H. O. Forbes and Mr. Dumas are the only naturalists who have managed to collect in the highlands 
of Buru. On Mount Мада, at an elevation of 3000 feet, the latter naturalist met with several new 
species, among them a very distinct form of Pigeon, Columba mada. 
The discovery of a new Ground-Thrush is, perhaps, the most interesting of Mr. Dumas's 
achievements in Buru, as Geocichla dumasi belongs to a small group of Ground-Thrushes confined 
to the higher ranges of the mountains in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. Thus 6. dumasi of 
Buru is closely allied to 6. dohertyi of Lombok, but is easily distinguished by the head being | 
coloured like the back, by the absence of white markings on the sides of the face, and by the chin | | 
being black like the throat, not white. | 
The following is Mr. Rothschild’s description of the species :— || I 
“ Adult male. Whole upper surface light olive-rufous brown, with two tufts of creamy-white || 
feathers, one on each side of the rump. Lesser upper wing-coverts like the back; greater upper | 
wing-coverts black, with two rows of large round white spots. Remiges blackish-brown ; the outer | 
webs of the primaries with narrow, those of the secondaries with broad, olive-rufous borders. 
All wing-feathers, except the outer three, with large white patches near the base of the inner webs. 
Tail like the back, but darker. Whole throat and chest black; abdomen white; flanks 
olive-yellowish brown; some feathers on the side of the breast olive with black tips, as well as 
some of the white breast-feathers, thus forming a broken irregular band across the breast. Under 
tail-coverts creamy-white. Under wing-coverts mixed black and white. Iris dark brown; bill black; 
feet light. Culmen 23 mm., wing 94, tail 68, tarsus 32." 
