- Myiothera andromedæ “Kuhl MS,” Temminck, Pl. Col. (1826), 2, no. 392.
- Geocichla andromedæ Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 163.
- Zoothera andromeda Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 138.
- Geocichla andromeda Grant, Ibis (1906), 477.
Mindanao (Goodfellow). Java, Sumatra, Lombok.
“In the adult male in spring plumage the general color of the upper parts is dark brown, approaching black on the head and on the margins of the feathers of the back; feathers of lores and ear-coverts with pale centers; no trace of eye-stripe; wings and tail not quite so black as the back; chin and upper throat white, with narrow transverse terminal black bands; cheeks pale slate-gray with broad terminal black bands; lower throat and breast pale slate-gray; center of belly and under tail-coverts buffish white; flanks black with large diamond-shaped white centers; axillars, basal half white, terminal half black; lower under wing-coverts, basal half black, terminal half white; basal portions of the inner webs of the secondaries and many of the primaries white. Bill abnormally long, dark brown above and below; wing with the fourth primary slightly the longest, second primary about equal to the sixth; bastard primary, 32 to 28 mm. Legs, feet, and claws dark brown. Wing, 124 to 122; tail, 77 to 71; culmen, 29 to 28; tarsus, 34 to 33.
“It is not known that there is any difference of plumage attributable to either sex or season. Young in first plumage have pale ochraceous shafts to most of the feathers of the upper parts and fan-shaped, ochraceous terminal spots to the wing-coverts. The under parts are also much suffused with ochraceous and the breast and flanks barred with black, the diamond-shaped pale centers being irregular in shape.” (Seebohm.)
Genus OREOCINCLA Gould, 1838.
“In the genus Oreocincla the sexes are alike, the under wing-coverts and axillars are each of two colors, those on the axillars being transposed or reversed in order on the under wing-coverts, the lower plumage is distinctly barred or spotted, never squamated, and the rictal bristles are few and confined to the gape. The tail is typically short and the upper tail-coverts very ample. There is a distinct pattern on the under side of the wing.” (Oates.)
537. OREOCINCLA VARIA (Pallas).
VARIED THRUSH.
- Turdus varius Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. (1811), 1, 449.
- Geocichla varia Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1881), 5, 151; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 212.
- Oreocichla varia Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 136; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 84.
Luzon (Whitehead); Mindoro (Porter). Japan and Siberia, accidental in Europe; China and Burma in winter.