GEOCICHLA DAUMA (Гай). 
THE SMALL-BILLED GROUND-THRUSH. 
Dauma Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 145 (1790). 
Turdus dauma, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 362 (1790). 
Oreocincla parvirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 136. 
Turdus varius (пес Pall.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 254 (1839). 
Turdus whitei (nec Eyton), Blyth, Ann. Nat, Hist. xii. p. 98 (1843). 
Oreocincla dauma, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 142 (1847). 
Geocichla dauma, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 154 (1881). 
G. suprà olivaceo-brunnea, nigro lunulata: pileo notzoque ochrascenti-fulvo variegatis: rectricibus 12: 
remigibus 3, 4, et 5 (minime 6) indentatis : alà 152-134 millim. 
Tur GmouNp-THRUSH breeds on the hillranges of the Himalayas, up to 7000 feet, from Huzara 
and Kashmir to Assam and the Burmese hills. In the cold season it visits the plains, and. has 
been found in Behar and other portions of Bengal, Chutia Nagpur (Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 408, 1874), 
and Orissa (Ball, Str. Е. vii. p. 213, 1878), while Jerdon records it from Central India, аз. far 
south as the Wynaad (B. Ind. i. p. 532); but I expect that the bird here intended is really 
G. nilgiriensis. It is found in Upper Pegu, and is probably a cold-weather visitant to all portions 
of the Indo-Burmese countries (Oates, B. Burm. i. р. 6) Major Wardlaw Ramsay met with the 
species in the Karen Hills at 5000 feet in April (Ibis, 1877, p. 462). 
The alleged occurrence of 6. dauma on the island of Heligoland (Gátke, Vogelwarte 
Helgoland, p. 245) is an error. Тһе specimen in question is in the Museum of Lund, and was 
originally bought about the year 1836 from the dealer Brandt in Hamburg by Baron von Gyllenkrog, 
and after his death it became the property of the Lund Museum. Brandt sold it as having been shot 
on the island of Fühnen or Fyen, south-east of Jutland, but Gätke maintains that it came from 
Heligoland. І have carefully examined this specimen, and that it originally came from North-east 
Australia is certain enough, but whether it was brought from the Antipodes by an enterprising 
sea-captain, or found its way by easy stages halfway round the world to a Danish seaport, it were 
idle to guess. There can be no doubt as to what the species is, viz. Geocichla Пети of Cabanis, 
and 6. iodura of Gould. The type of G. heinii is in the Museum of Oberamtmann Ferdinand 
Heine at Halberstadt, who purchased it of a dealer (probably the same Brandt of Hamburg) 
as having come from Japan! | 
The statements that б. dauma has occurred near Vienna (Pelzeln, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 
Wien, 1871, p. 703) and in Italy (Giglioli, Avifauna Italica, 1886, p. 103) cannot be regarded as 
supported by satisfactory evidence. 
The Zoological Society of London possesses a valuable manuscript work on Indian ornithology, 
written nearly half a century ago, by Colonel Tickell, and illustrated by original water-colour 
drawings. This work contains some interesting particulars respecting the habits of this Ground- 
Thrush. Colonel Tickell met with the species in its breeding-grounds near Darjiling, 5000 feet 
above sea-level, but it was presumably near the end of its summer stay on the hills, as he states 
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