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The measurements are as follows :—Length of wing 4-9 to 4*5 inches, tail 9:8 to 2°75 inches, 
culmen 1:28 to 1:15 inch, tarsus 1:15 to 1:1 inch. 
The pale spots at the tips of the wing-coverts are markedly buff in colour, and those on the 
greater wing-coverts are semi-lunar rather than fan-shaped. Тһе black on the median wing-coverts 
and on the tail-feathers is not very pronounced. 
The specific characters of Geocichla imbricata may be summed up as follows :— 
General colour of upper parts olive-brown, and of underparts ochraceous buff, nearly all the 
body-feathers, both above and below, with black crescentic tips [distinguishing it from every other 
species belonging to the genus]. 
These characters are absolutely diagnostic within the genus, 
It is further distinguished from Geocichla varia and G. horsfieldi by hav 
14 tail-feathers; from 6. macrorhyncha, ©. cuneata, and G. lunulata by its short tail; from 
G. lunulata, G. cuneata, and G. ћете by the presence of pale sub-terminal bars across the feathers 
of the crown; and from 6. heinü, б. cuneata, and 6. papuensis by the absence of white on the 
outer tail-feathers. 
Young in first plumage of this species are entirely unknown. АП the examples which I have 
seen are in winter plumage, which probably becomes much abraded and faded before the breeding- 
Some examples have the buff of the underparts and on the wing-coverts much richer 
It is not known that the females 
ing only 12 instead of 
season is over. 
and darker than others, and may possibly be birds of the year. 
differ from the males in colour, but they appear to be on an average slightly smaller in size. 
Тһе Plate is taken from an example іп my collection obtained in the Hakgala Gardens in the 
high land near Nuwara Elliya in Ceylon, in February 1876, by Mr. Thwaites, and is life-size. This 
species has been well figured in Colonel Vincent Legge's * Birds of Ceylon.’ 
