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GEOCICHLA PAPUENSIS, Seebohm. 
NEW-GUINEA. GROUND-THRUSH. 
Geocichla papuensis, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 158, pl. ix. (1881). 
Oreocincla papuensis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xviii. p. 426 (1883). 
С. suprà rufescenti-brunnea, nigro lunulata : pileo ochraceo variegato : rectricibus exterioribus intús late albis. 
Тила species was discovered in the Astrolabe range of mountains in South-eastern New Guinea 
by Mr. A. Goldie. The type is in the British Museum, and is аб present apparently the only one 
known. Nothing has been recorded of its habits. 
Geocichla papuensis is apparently a very good species. 16 is the smallest in the sub-genus 
Oreocincla, but when a larger series has been obtained it will probably be found to intergrade in 
size with G. imbricata. Its chief characteristic is the great amount of white on the inner web of the 
outermost tail-feathers, the white extending for nearly two inches, somewhat more than in the 
allied species б. heinii and G. cuneata. It differs from both these species in having golden-buff 
sub-terminal bars across the feathers of the crown, and from the latter in having a proportionately 
shorter tail, besides being a smaller bird than either. 
Wing 4:4 inches, tail 8:05 inches, culmen :95 inch, tarsus 1:12 inch. Тһе first primary is 
about the same length as the primary-coverts, the second primary is about equal to the sixth ; the 
tail, which consists of only twelve feathers, is less than four-fifths of the length of the wing, and the 
outermost rectrices are very little shorter than the longest. 
In colour the species scarcely differs from Geocichla heinü, the brown of the upper parts 
being very russet, but there is more white on the outermost rectrices, and each feather of the crown 
and nape is crossed by a golden-buff sub-terminal band, Тһе Geocichline markings on the under 
surface of the wing are buff, not white. 
The figure in the Plate is drawn life-size from the type in the British Museum, 
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