17 



TURDUS TERRESTRIS kittl. 



Turdus terrestris Kittlitz, Me-m. Acad. Sc. Petersburg I p. 245, pi. 17 (1830 — Boninsima). 

 Geocichla terrestris Bonaparte, Consp. Av. I, p. 268 (1850); Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. V, 



p. 183 (1881) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogels. Senckenb, p. 6 (1891) ; Sharpe, Monograph 



Turdidae, I p. 107, pi. 33 (1902). 

 Cichlopasser terrestris Bonaparte, C.R. XXXVIII, p. 6 (1854). 



HE following is Dr. Sharpe's description from a specimen in the 



J| 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. Wing 3*8 

 inches, tail 2*6, culmen 0-85, tarsus 1*07, bastard primary 0'8." 



The only person who ever collected this short-tailed Ground-Thrush 

 was Kittlitz, who obtained four specimens, one of which is in St. Petersburg, 

 one in Frankfurt, one in Vienna, and one in Leyden. Neither Hoist, nor 

 Alan Owston's Japanese collectors obtained specimens, though their special 

 attention was called to it. Therefore, unless these recent collectors left 

 unvisited the most important island of the group, we must suppose that it 

 became extinct. 



Habitat : Bonin Islands, south-east of Japan. 



