THE OKANGE-HEADED GROUND-THRUSH. 
3 
like the breast ; smaller wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts ruddy 
brown on the outer web, and plain brown on the inner ; primaries brown, 
edged with grey on outer webs ; secondaries and tertiaries brown on the 
inner webs, ruddy brown on the outer ; tail blackish brown, the three outer 
pairs of feathers tipped with white on the inner webs. 
Female. Like the male in general, but the slaty parts are replaced by 
ruddy brown, like the other parts of the upper plumage ; the chin and 
throat are whitish. 
The young are like the female^ but the greater wing-coverts are tipped 
with buffy. 
Length 8 inches, tail 3*6, wing 4*9^ tarsus 1*2, bill from forehead 1. 
The Pale Ouzel was procured in Karennee at an elevation of 5000 feet 
in January by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay ; and Mr. Davison got one specimen 
on Mooleyit in Tenasserim also in the cold season. There is no other 
record of its occurrence in British Burmah. 
It winters in South China, and it was observed by Colonel Godwin- 
Austen in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal. It summers in Eastern 
Siberia and Japan. Little is known of its habits. 
Genus GEOCICHLA, KuhL 
3. GEOCICHLA CITRINA. 
THE ORANGE-HEADED GROUND-THRUSH. 
Turdus citrinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 350. Geocichla citrina, Jerd. B. Ind. i. 
p. 617 5 Htime, Nests and Eggs, p. 229; Bl. B. Burm. p. 99; Oates, S. FeatJi. v. 
p. 151 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 250 ; Hume, S. F. yiii. p. 94 ; Legge, Birds 
Ceyl. p. 457 ; Scully^ 8. F. viii. p. 283 ; Hume, S. F. ix. p. 101 ; Seebohm, Cat, 
Birds B. Mus. v. p. 172. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole head, neck, breast, belly and 
flanks orange- buff, darkest on the head and albescent on the chin and 
throat ; vent, thighs and under tail-coverts pure white ; back, rump, upper 
tail- coverts,, scapulars and the smaller wing-coverts dark bluish grey, all 
the feathers edged paler ; some of the wing-coverts near the edge of the 
wing tipped white and forming a conspicuous wing-spot ; the larger wing- 
coverts and the primary-coverts chiefly dark brown, the outer edges broadly 
ashy ; wing dark brown, the outer webs margined with ashy, and the inner 
webs white at their bases; under wing- coverts white, mixed with ashy; 
tail ashy brown. 
What appear to be young birds have the feathers of the back^ rump and 
tail-coverts edged with pale yellowish brown instead of ashy. 
b2 
