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BIKDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
5. GEOCICHLA DAUMA. 
THE HIMALAYAN GROUND-THRUSH. 
Turdus dauma, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 362. Oreocincla dauma, Jerd. B. Ind. i. 
p. 533 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 236 ; Ball, Str. Feath. ii, p. 408 ; Hume, 8. F. 
iii, p. 115 ; Wald. in Bl. B, Burm. p. 100 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 256; Hume, 
S.F. yiii. p. 94; Bingham, iS. F. ix. p. 178. Geocichla dauma, Seebohm, Cat. 
Birds B. Mus. y. p. 154, 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper body-plumage rich 
olive, each feather with a terminal lunar tipping of black, with an interior 
pale fulvous spot; scapulars the same, the black tipping larger and 
extending more on the inner than on the outer web ; wing-coverts chiefly 
dark brown or black, tipped with large fulvous spots, which colour also 
suffuses the outer webs of the greater series of coverts ; greater coverts to 
primaries blackish, the central portion of the outer webs tawny ; quills 
brown, the outer webs suffused with tawny fulvous, the tertiaries partially 
tipped with the same ; basal portions of the inner webs fulvous white; the two 
central pairs of tail-feathers plain olive-brown ; the next pair olive-brown 
on the basal half and brown on the remainder, tipped with white ; the next 
with the olive-brown of the basal portion less extended, and with a greater 
portion dark brown, tipped white ; the next pair nearly all brown, broadly 
tipped with white, the base of the outer web only being olive-brown ; the 
outer pair brown on basal half, the terminal half being whitish brown and 
the outer web margined with pale olive-brown; lores whitish, with the 
shafts brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts white, terminated by black tips, in 
front of which are fulvous marks ; chin white ; throat and breast white, 
terminally fulvous and tipped with crescentic marks of black ; belly and 
flanks white, with similar black tips, but with the interior fulvous marks 
much less in extent ; centre of belly nearly pure white ; under tail-coverts 
white, a few of the feathers obsoletely tipped with brown ; under wing- 
coverts white, with a broad black band across the middle ; thighs white, 
barred with brown. 
Upper mandible and centre of the lower one dark brown, the remainder 
o£ lower mandible pale brown, the gape tinged with orange ; inside of 
mouth yellowish ; eyelid and ocular region plumbeous ; iris dark hazel- 
brown ; legs and claws fleshy white. 
Length 10'4 inches, tail 3*8, wing 5'6, tarsus 1'3, bill from gape 1*2. 
The female is rather smaller. 
The Himalayan Ground-Thrush is a winter visitor to Burmah. I 
procured it on the Pegu hills in April, and in the plains at Kyeikpadein in 
the cold weather. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo and in 
