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and very little white on the throat. It is sexed as a male, and was procured on the 20th of February, 
1874, by General Stewart on the Andaman Islands. 
Тһе adult male may be described as follows :—Entire head 
with brown on the forehead and crown; the rest of the upper parts ereyish-blue, 
darker centre; lores nearly white; eye-stripe obsolete; lesser wing-coverts greyish-blue; median 
-blue, with dark bases; greater wing-coverts greyish-blue, with dark brown 
inner webs; tertials greyish-blue; secondaries and primaries brown, more or less margined on 
the outer webs with greyish-blue ; centre tail-feathers and outer webs of the others bluish-grey ; the 
chestnut; underparts cinnamon-chestnut, shading into white 
llaries bluish-grey, with white bases; 
with bluish-grey bases. 
and neck orange-chestnut, suffused 
each feather with a 
wing-coverts greyish 
remainder brown ; ear-coverts orange- 
on the chin, centre of belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts ; axi 
lower primary-coverts bluish-grey ; lower secondary-coverts white, 
Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, white. 
Bill brown, paler at the base of the under mandible ; 
between the sixth and seventh; legs, feet, and claws pale flesh-colour ; 
shorter than the longest. 
Length of wing 4:2 to 3:8 inches, tail 3:1 to 2:6 inches, culmen 0:85 to 0:8 inch, tarsus 1:25 to 
1:2 inch; bastard-primary projecting some way beyond the primary-coverts, its exposed portion 
second primary intermediate in length 
outer tail-feathers 0:15 inch 
measuring 1:05 to 0:85 inch. 
Females appear to differ from males in having the greyish-blue of the upper parts suffused with 
green, most conspicuously so on the mantle, and least so on the rump and upper tail-coverts. They 
also show traces of the two dark bands across the ear-coverts which are so conspicuous in Geocichla 
cyanonota at all ages, and in the immature birds of the other species in the sub-generic group. 
There is one example of the young in first plumage in the British Museum. It very closely 
resembles the same plumage of Geocichla citrina, but the wing-coverts and the feathers of the mantle 
have rufous shaft-streaks. 
The species is figured.on the same Plate as Geocichla rubecula. The figure represents a male in 
my collection collected by Captain Wimberley at Port Blair in February 1874. 
