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GEOCICHLA FRONTALIS, Madarász. 
MADARÁSZS GROUND-THRUSH. 
Geocichla frontalis, Madarász, Termes. Füzetek, xxii. p. 111, tabl. viii. (1899). 
С. similis G. dohertyi, sed pileo postico castaneo dorso concolore, fronte tantum nigra: facie laterali et gutture 
et przepectore totis nigris, macula alba anteoculari et macula longitudinali paroticali distinguenda. 
Dr. von Mavaräsz has described a handsome Ground-Thrush as Geocichla frontalis, of which two 
specimens are in the Hungarian National Museum. "They were acquired, with a few more Celebean 
skins, from a Mr. Simon Markstein, whose father had collected them on the island of Celebes. 
Unfortunately the exact locality or dates of capture were not mentioned, but it would seem from the 
picture drawn by Dr. von Madarász that the species is perfectly distinct from any known Geocichla 
of the Malayan Archipelago. As the describer has duly pointed out, it is allied to 6. dohertyi and 
С. erythronota. From the former it differs in having the black confined to the fore part of the crown, 
instead of the entire head being black. Тһе throat is entirely black with no white chin, while 
the white markings on the face are confined to a spot in front of the eye and a streak along 
the middle of the ear-coverts. There are many striking differences between G. frontalis and 
G. erythronota, but the flank-markings and the white band across the upper breast are very similar 
in both species. | : 
The following is the detailed description given by Dr. von Madarász : 
« Male. General colour of the upper parts chestnut-brown, shading into orange-chestnut on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts ; head black, shading into chestnut on the occiput; lores, upper part of 
malar region, and a large white patch in the centre of the ear-coverts white; chin, throat, and sides 
of the neck black; the base of the chin-feathers greyish-white; below the throat a white collar; 
centre of belly and under tail-coverts white; the rest of the underparts white, but the feathers 
broadly terminated with black, giving the sides of belly a nearly black appearance, whilst the black 
ends of the flank-feathers become smaller; the white colour of the upper flanks suffused with light 
ochraceous ; scapulars, wing-coverts, primaries, and secondaries—except the first three ones—having 
greyish-white on the base of their outer web, which extends as a small margin on the 4th, 5th, and 
6th primaries, and white on the base of their inner web; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, 
with white tips; bend of wing white, each feather tipped with black ; tail-feathers black, the outer one 
with a terminal white spot, which is enlarged on the inner web (17 mm.), the next one tipped with 
white. 
“ВШ greenish-black and yellowish on the culmen towards the end; feet and claws brownish- 
yellow in skin. 
* Length of wing 114 mm., tail 56, culmen 21, tarsus 52; bastard-primary about as long as 
the primary-coverts, second primary intermediate between the sixth and seventh; outer tail-feathers 
8 mm. shorter than the longest. 
“ Female. Resembles the male, but the general colour of the upper parts paler; the centre of 
the head and front chestnut instead of black, but the basal half of the feathers jet-black; the black 
tips of the feathers of the belly smaller and the bend of the wing nearly white.” 
