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colour; outer tail-feathers 0:1 inch shorter than the longest. “ВШ black: feet pale brownish 
horn-colour ; claws dark brown; iris deep umber " (ТУ. Doherty). 
Length of wing 4:4 to 4:0 inches, tail 8:0 to 2:8 inches, culmen 0:89 to 0:82 inch, tarsus 1:38 to 
1:24 inch; bastard-primary projecting beyond the primary-coverts, its exposed portion measuring 1:0 
to 0:9 inch. : | T 
Young in first plumage appear to be unknown. There are ten adult examples in the British 
Museum ; they are unfortunately unsexed, and may possibly be all males, as none of them show any 
trace of green on the mantle. Possibly in this species the females are not suffused with green on 
the upper parts. P 
The figure on the Plate below that of Geocichla andamanensis represents a life-sized example 
obtained on the island of Java in 1863: it is in my own collection. 
