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GEOCICHLA EVERETTI, Sharpe. 
EVERETT'S GROUND-THRUSH, 
Geocichla everetti, Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, pp. 323, 431. 
С. pectore aurantiaco-castaneo: notzo toto olivascenti-brunneo. 
THE present species, which is a very distinct one, was discovered by Mr. Charles Hose, in October 
1891, on Mount Dulit in Sarawak, at an elevation of 5000 feet. It was named after Mr. Alfred 
Everett, the distinguished traveller-naturalist ; and the latter gentleman has himself since met with 
the species on Mount Kina Balu in North-western Borneo, also in the month of October. It is 
probably confined to the mountains of Northern Borneo. 
Nothing is known of the habits of Everett's Ground-Thrush, and its combination of colours is 
unusual in the genus Geocichla, while its long bill suggests an affinity to the members of the 
sub-genus Zoothera. 
The species may be described as follows :— 
General colour above uniform dark olive-brown ; lores white, slightly mottled with brown; 
round the eye some whitish feathers, but no eye-stripe; wing-coverts olive-brown ; primary-coverts 
and inner secondaries also olive-brown ; secondaries brown, inclining to russet-brown on the outer 
webs; primaries brown ; tail-feathers brown, suffused with olive-brown on both webs; ear-coverts 
dusky brown, with narrow white streaks, and with traces of a black line along the upper margin of 
the cheeks ; cheeks orange-buff, mottled like the ear-coverts, and separated from the buffy-white chin 
and upper throat by a blackish malar stripe; remainder of the underparts orange-chestnut, shading 
into white on the belly; under tail-coverts orange-chestnut; axillaries black, with white bases ; 
lower primary-coverts brown ; lower secondary-coverts white, with brown bases. 
Geocichline markings on the inner webs of the quills, white. 
Bill nearly black. Second primary about equal to the seventh. Legs, feet, and claws brown. 
Outer tail-feather 0-15 inch shorter than the longest. Length of wing 4:4 to 4:15 inches, tail 
3:0 inches, culmen 1:1 inch, tarsus 1-4 to 1:3 inch; bastard-primary projecting beyond the primary- 
coverts, its exposed portion measuring 1:1 inch. 
The sexes are alike in colouring; but the female is a little browner, and the young have the 
same orange spots on the wing-coverts as are found in other species of Geocichla. Тһе underparts 
are light orange, mottled with black edgings to the feathers. 
The small orange spots at the end of the wing-coveris distinguish the young birds of the 
previous year from adults. Тһе typical example has these tips to the greater wing-coverts, and is 
doubtless not fully adult. 
The figures in the Plate are drawn from the typical specimen in the British Museum. 
[R. B. &.] 
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