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The Geocichline patches on the under surface of the wing are nearly always buff, but there are 
two examples in the British Museum in which they are white: it is probable that these are in 
the fully adult plumage. бо far as is known, these Geocichline patches are always white in 
Geocichla nilgiriensis and G. heinii, and nearly always buff in the other species of the sub-genus 
Oreocincla. 
There is an example in the British Museum, dated the 27th of September, in which some of the 
quills are still “ in the pen." 
The specific characters of Geocichla dauma may be summed up as follows :— 
I. General colour of upper parts olive-brown, and of underparts white (more or less suffused 
both above and below with golden buff in autumn, especially in the first autumn); nearly all 
the body-feathers, both above and below, ornamented with black crescentic tips [distinguishing it from 
every species belonging to the genera and sub-genera Zoothera, Psophocichla, Cichlopasser, Turdulus, 
and Geocichla, but not from those belonging to the sub-genus Oreocincla]. 
II. Rectrices twelve in number [distinguishing it from 6. varia and G. horsfieldi]. 
ПІ. Rump and upper tail-coverts, in summer, olive-brown (not russet-brown), lunulated with 
black [distinguishing it at that season from G. horsfieldi, G. nilgiriensis, G. papuensis, G. heinii, and 
С. macrorhyncha]. 
IV. Feathers of crown and nape crossed with very conspicuous pale sub-terminal bars varying 
in colour from nearly white in adult summer plumage to golden buff in first autumn dress 
[distinguishing it from every other species of the sub-genus Oreocincla, except G. varia]. 
V. White terminal patch on inner web of outermost tail-feathers generally less than half an inch 
long [generally distinguishing it from G. heinii, б. cuneata, and G. papuensis]. 
VI. Tail moderate in length, less than four-fifths of the length of the wing [distinguishing it 
from G. macrorhyncha, G. lunülata, and G. cuneata]. 
ҮП. Bill comparatively small, the culmen less than a third of the length of the tail 
[distinguishing it from adult examples of G. nilgiriensis and G. imbricata]. 
The following combinations are diagnostic within the sub-genus:—L, IL, IV.; L, IL, IIL, 
VL, VIL; P. D, S; УЕ М 
А inus of this species has apparently never been published before, but there are various 
sketches in the Hodgson portfolios in the British Museum (Gray, Catalogue of the Specimens and 
Drawings of Mammalia and Birds of Nepal and Thibet presented by B Н. Hodgson, Esq., p. 80). 
In the first edition of that * Catalogue, published in 1846, Gray called the bird Turdus whitei, but in 
the second edition, published in 1863, the name is corrected to Oreocincla dauma. 
The right-hand figure in the Plate is a life-sized representation of an example in my museum 
procured in 1877 in Sikhim by the collectors of that indefatigable ornithologist, the late Mr. L. 
Mandelli, of Darjeeling. The smaller figure in the distance, to the left, is taken from a skin shot by 
Mr. A. Anderson on the 5th of May, 1895, in Kumaon ; it is a male in the somewhat faded summer 
plumage, which has been described as Oreocincla parvirostris. 
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