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Rh is white ; and the distribution of white marks is the same as in the fully adult. Males after the first autumn moult are similar to those just described, but the centres of the feathers of the upper abdomen and sides of the body are white and the tips darker than the other parts, causing a barred appearance ; they have also a rufous band across the breast, the remains of the nestling plumage. The nestling is unknown.

Female. The whole upper plumage, wings, and tail olive-brown with a slaty tinge on the rump ; the wing-coverts tipped with buff ; the outer webs of quills tinged with rufescent ; the outer tail-feathers narrowly tipped white ; an indistinct buff supercilium to the nape ; sides of the head mixed brown and buff ; cheeks buff bordered below by a dusky stripe ; chin and throat buff ; breast pale buff, the feathers tipped and margined with brown ; middle of abdomen white ; sides of the body olivaceous brown obsoletely barred darker; under tail-coverts white with basal brown margins ; axillaries white tipped olive-brown ; under wing-coverts olive- brown tipped white.

Adult males have the bill black ; iris deep brown ; front of legs, feet, and claws greenish yellow ; back of legs dirty yellow. Females have the iris dark brown ; the upper mandible very dark brown ; the lower mandible and gape to angle of gonys dirty yellow ; legs, feet, and claws orange-yellow (Hume 3f Davison}.

Length about 9 ; tail 3'6 : wing 4-8 ; tarsus I'l ; bill from gape 1*1.

Distribution. A winter visitor to the eastern portions of the Empire. This species has been obtained on Muleyit and Nwalabo mountains in Tenasserim ; at Toungngoo ; in Karennee ; and in Manipur. It has also occurred in the Andamans, a female speci- men from these islands having been named 0. inframaryinata by Blyth. In winter this bird is found from China to Java, and it summers in Siberia and Japan.

685. Geocichla cyanonotus. The White-throated Ground- Thrush.

Turdus cyanotus, Jard. $ Sclby, III. Orn. i, pi. xlvi (1828). Geocichla cyanotus (J. $ S.), Blyth, Cat. p. 163 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 101 ; Jcrd. B. I. i, p. 517 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xxxviii, pt. ii, p. 179; Hume, J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 118; id. N. 8f E. p. 229 ; id. Cat. no. 354 ; Davison, S. F. x, JD. 374 ; Seebphm, Cat. B. M. v, p. 172; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 1/1 ; Oates, in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 98.

Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck and sides of the neck, breast, abdomen, and sides of the body golden rufous, the crown tinged with greenish ; vent and under tail-covert s white ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and wing-coverts slaty blue; the median wing-coverts broadly tipped with white; quills dark brown, margined on the outer webs with pale slaty; tail slaty blue, the outer feathers tipped pale ; lores, cheeks, chin,