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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
My description is taken from a specimen shot by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay 
in Karennee. 
Dixon^s Thrush has long been confounded with G. moUissima ; and it is 
not possible to determine its geographical distribution. Capt. Wardlaw 
Ramsay procured it in Karennee at 5000 feet elevation; and in the 
British Museum there is a specimen from Nipal^ and another from 
Darjeeling. 
Mr. Seebohm states that it breeds in the Himalayas^ descending to the 
plains in the cold season as far as Central India. 
Genus ZOOTHERA, Vigors. 
7. ZOOTHERA MARGINATA * 
THE LONG-BILLED GROUND-THRUSH. 
Zoothera marginata, BI. J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 141 n ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 226 ; 
Bl. ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 100; Hume ^ Davison, S. Feafh. vi. p. 246; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 94 ; Bingham, 8. F. yiii. p. 195. Geocichla marginata, Seebohm, 
Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 162. 
Description. — Male and female. General colour of the upper plumage 
rufescent olive-brown^ dark and dull on the head^very bright on the outer 
webs of the feathers of the wing^ the coverts with buff tips ; inner webs of 
the quills and primary-coverts dark brown ; lores and sides of the head 
mixed white and blacky the black preponderating on the ear-coverts ; chin_, 
throat and a line down the neck pure white ; breast and abdomen brown, 
each feather with a large white drop in the centre ; sides of breast, body 
and flanks brown, with broad white shaft-lines, becoming broader towards 
the abdomen ; under tail-coverts buffy white, broadly margined with 
brown ; axillaries buflpy white at base and brown at tips ; tail uniform 
rufescent olive-brown. 
The legs and feet varied from dark brown to pale bluish brown ; the 
claws pale horny ; the upper mandible and lower mandible from tip to 
angle of gonys from black to very dark horny brown ; rest of lower man- 
dible reddish to bluish fleshy ; gape yellowish or fleshy white ; irides deep 
hair- brown. {Davison.) 
Length 10 inches, tail 3, wing 4*9, tarsus I 'I, bill from gape 1*5. The 
sexes appear to be of the same size. 
The Long-billed Ground-Thrush appears to be sparingly distributed 
over the whole of British Burmah. I procured one specimen on the 
* Although following Mr. Seebohm in the genera of the Thrushes, I find it impossible 
to include this bird in Geocichla. 
