colour; outer tail-feathers 0T inch shorter than the longest. “ Bill black: feet pale brownish
hom-colour; claws dark brown; iris deep umber” (W. Doherty).
Length of wing 4'4 to 4'0 inches, tail 3-0 to 2-8 inches, culmen 0-89.to 0'82 inch, tarsus 1-3 to
1-24 inch; bastard-primary projecting beyond the primaiy-coverts, its exposed portion measuring l'O
to 0*9 inch. ■ . .
Young in fir s t plumage appear to be unknown. There are ten adult examples in the British
Museum; they are unfortunately unsexed, and may possibly he all males, as none of them show any
trace of green on the mantle. Possibly in this species the females are not suffused with green on
the upper parts.
The figure on the Plate below that of Geocichla andamanensis represents a life-sized example-.
obtained on the island of Java in 1863 : it is in my own collection.
