GEOCICHLA TERRESTRIS (Кий). 
KITTLITZ'S GROUND-THRUSH. 
Turdus terrestris, Kittlitz, Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb. i. p. 245, pl. xvii. (1830). 
Geocichla terrestris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 268 (1850). 
Myiothera passerina, Bp. Consp. i. p. 268 (1850). 
Cichlopasser terrestris, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 6 (1854). 
Zoothera terrestris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 261. no. 8814 (1869). 
С. axillaribus ошпіпб brunneis: dorso nigro fasciato : tectricibus supracaudalibus minime pallidiüs terminatis. 
Tuis species is apparently peculiar to the Bonin Islands, where Kittlitz discovered it in 1828. Тһе 
type specimen is in the St. Petersburg Museum, and a second is at Frankfort (Hartert, Kat. Vogels. 
Mus. Senckenb. Ges. p. 6). Тһе Leyden Museum possesses a third (the Myiothera passerina of 
Bonaparte’s * Conspectus ”), and a fourth is in the Vienna Museum. 
The following description is taken from the specimen in the Leyden Museum :— 
General colour of the upper parts olive-brown, shading into chestnut-brown on the rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and tail; the inside web of each feather much darker, approaching black on the back ; 
lores dark brown; eye-stripe very obscure; lesser wing-coverts brown, darkest on the inside web; 
median coverts dark brown, with large olive-brown tips; greater coverts nearly black, broadly tipped, 
and narrowly margined towards the base, with olive-brown; primary-coverts black, with a broad 
olive-brown patch on the outer webs; tertials dark brown on the inner web, and olive-brown on the 
outer web; secondaries brown, margined with olive-brown on the outer webs; primaries brown, with 
the basal half of the outer webs, and a spot where the emargination begins, olive-brown ; tail-feathers 
chestnut-brown ; ear-coverts brown ; underparts olive-brown, shading into white on the chin, throat, 
and centre of belly; under tail-coverts dark brown, with irregular diamond-shaped white tips; 
axillaries brown ; under wing-coverts brown. 
Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, dirty white. 
Bill (possibly faded to) horn-colour; second primary intermediate in length between the sixth 
and seventh ; legs, feet, and claws pale; outer tail-feathers very slightly shorter than the longest. 
Length of wing 38 inches, tail 2:6 inches, culmen 0:85 inch, tarsus 1:07 inch, bastard-primary 
0:8 inch. (35) 
The figure in Ше Plate is drawn life-size from Ше specimen in the Leyden Museum. 
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