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BIRDS OF BUITISH BUEMAH. 
Bill very dark brown, tlie gape and base of lower mandible flesh-colonr ; 
inside of mouth flesh-colour 5 eyelids slate-colour ; iris dark hazel ; legs 
fleshy pink; claws pink. 
Length 8*8 inches,, tail Sj wing 4* 6, tarsus 1*3^ bill from gape 1*1. The 
female is the same size. 
The Orange-headed Ground-Thrush is spread over every portion of 
British Burmah, and is a constant resident. It does not appear to be 
anywhere very common. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay met with it also in 
Karennee. 
It appears to be found throughout the whole range of the Himalayas up 
to about 5000 feet elevation in summer, and to descend to the plains of 
India in winter, at which season it reaches to Ceylon, if G. layardi be 
really the same species. It no doubt is also found over the Indo-Burmese 
countries. A doubtfully distinct species, G. innotata, is found in the 
Malay peninsula. 
Although this Thrush is said to be migratory in India, in Burmah it is 
a resident species. I have procured it all through the cold weather, and I 
have found the nest in May and June near Pegu and Kyeikpadein. It 
builds in shrubs or low trees at heights not more than 20 feet from the 
ground, and makes a massive cup-shaped nest of roots and strips of soft 
bark, lined with moss and fern-roots. The eggs are three in number, 
greenish white, mottled with reddish brown. 
It is rather a familiar bird, not avoiding man or retreating far from 
villages. When disturbed, however, it soon conceals itself. It moves 
about on the ground, turning over leaves and searching for worms and 
insects. It is said to have a pretty song ; but I have never heard it. 
4. GEOCICHLA SIBIRICA. 
THE SIBERIAN GROUND-THRUSH. 
Turdus sibiricus, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 694 5 Wald. in Bl. B. Burin, p. 100 ; 
Dresser, Birds Bur. ii. p. 87, pi. ; Bav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 149 ; Hume, Str. 
Feath. viii. p. 94 ; Seehohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 5. Turdulus davisoni, Hume, Str. 
Feath. V. pp. 63, 136. Turdulus sibiricus, Hume 8f Dav. 8. F. vi. pp. 255, 513. 
Geocichla sibirica, Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 180. 
Description. — Male. Whole upper plumage with the chin, throat, breast, 
flanks, sides of the body and sides of the abdomen deep slaty grey, each- 
feather margined paler; centre of the abdomen and vent white; under 
tail-coverts slaty, tipped with white ; axillaries white, tipped with slaty ; 
lores and sides of the head almost black; a distinct white supercilium^ 
