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This species resembles Cettia fortlpes of the Himalayas, but is easily distinguished by its ashy-grey 
throat and breast. These birds are placed in the genus Cetlia by Mr. Seebohm, but they seem to me to 
belong to at least a distinct subgenus, and, but for the weight of bis authority, I should have preferred to 
call this new species Horornis oreophila. 
[It was only when I reached the higher slopes of Kina Balu that I met with this Warbler, which 
occurs between 7000 and 12,000 feet. It is always found frequenting the thick undergrowth, and it has 
a feeble song.] 
80. Geocichla aurata, sp. n., Sharpe. 
G. similis G. citrince, sed saturatius aurantiaca et abdomine subcaudalibusque albis distinct^ flavido 
lavatis distinguenda. Long. tot. 8'3 poll., culmin. 0 - 85, ala; 4'45, caudse 2’9, tarsi 1'4. 
The adult female is exactly like the male. Total length 8 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 4'4, tail 2*75, 
tarsus 1‘35. 
The young bird is duller blue-grey, the head and mantle mottled with orange-yellow centres to the 
feathers, and the wing-coverts with large yellowish-buff spots at their ends ; the lores and sides of the 
face are orange-buff, with a black line from the eye down to the hinder cheeks, and a black patch on the 
hinder ear-coverts ; under surface of body bright orange, the throat white, encircled by a black line on 
fore neck, the breast-feathers mottled with blackish ends ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, with 
scarcely any yellow tinge. The bill entirely black, without the pale base of G. citrinci. 
In the depth of the orange-colour on the head and sides of face this species almost equals G. rubecula 
of Java, but is not so intensely coloured on the body. It is more richly coloured than the ordinary 
G. citrina, but has the abdomen and under tail-coverts white washed with yellow. 
[Bill black ; legs dirty pinkish white ; iris black. It was only when I was on the point of leaving 
the mountain on my second expedition that I fell in with this Thrush, which I obtained at about 3000 feet 
elevation. The young were fully fledged by the beginning of May.] 
81. Merula seebohmi, sp. n., Sharpe. 
Adult male. General colour above, including the wings and tail, black ; head, entire sides of face, 
ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and chest black, the latter rather more sooty black ; abdomen, breast, and 
sides of body rich chestnut, the lower abdomen white ; flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, the 
latter with white centres to the feathers, tinged with tawny buff; under wing-coverts and axillaries 
blackish, the latter fringed with whitish at the ends ; quills below blackish, a little more ashy along the 
inner edge. Total length 9'6 inches, culmen 095, wing 5'2, tail 4'2, tarsus l - 45. 
Female (not quite adult). Browner than the male, and having the chestnut underparts rather duller. 
Some pale centres to the wing-coverts make it appear that the specimen is not quite full-plumaged, and 
the primaries have ashy margins. Total length 9 - 5 inches, culmen 095, wing 4'7, tail 4, tarsus 1*35. 
The typical female had a few remains of buff, centres to the wing-coverts, and was described by me 
as “ immature,” but it is practically adult. The fully adult female is scarcely to be distinguished from 
the male and is only a trifle browner. Wing 4 inches. More than one specimen has the abdomen 
mottled with black feathers edged with buff; but these markings are unaccompanied by other signs of 
nonage. 
The young bird has a dusky bill and is more dingy black than the adults, with deep buff streaks 
down the back and on the wing-coverts, taking the form of small spots at the end of the greater series ; 
sides of face and ear-coverts dusky blackish, mottled on the cheeks with rufous ; a broad blackish malar 
streak ; throat uniform rufous buff; rest of under surface deep rufous, whiter on the abdomen, the fore 
neck mottled with black-spotted feathers, the sides of the neck uniform black ; the black spots less 
distinct on the breast ; under tail-coverts as in the adult female. 
[Iris black ; bill and feet and ring round the eye king’s yellow. This Blackbird was at once 
recognized by me as new directly I saw it, for I had already met with M. javanica in the highlands of 
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