orange-chestnut, shading into white on the, centre of the belly, thighs, and under tail-covert's, and
into olive-brown on the flanks; axillaries brown, with white bases; lower primary-coverts brown;
lower secondary-coverts white, with brown bases.
Geocichline markings on inner webs of quills, white.
Bill dark brown ; second primary intermediate in length between the seventh and eighth.
Feet and claws pale | outer tail-feathers 0*3 shorter than the longest; length of wing 4*15 to
4 inches, tail 3*65 to 3\3 inches, culmen ’86 to *8 inch, tarsus 1*3 inch; bastard-primary projecting
0;3 inch beyond the primary-coverts, its exposed portion measuring 1-05 inch.
A half-fledged nestling procured by the Marquis Antinori is described by Count Salvadori as
having pale shaft-streaks on most of the feathers of the upper parts, and obscure dark bars across
many of the feathers of the underparts (in both respects resembling the nestling of Geodchla princii);
but the white terminal spots on both the median and greater wing-coverts are described as white (in
the nestling of Geodchla princii the spots on the median wing-coverts are rufous).
The Plate represents one of the typical specimens from “ Lake Sannb ” in my collection, and is
drawn of the size of life. The type in the British Museum, obtained at the same time, has been
figured, three-fourths of the size of life, on plate xi. of the fifth volume of the ‘ Catalogue of Birds.’