BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 91 



Family TIMELIIDAE, Babbling Thrushes 



TURDOIDES LEUCOPYGIA SMITHII (Sharpe) 

 FlGUBE 9 



Cratrropus sniithii Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 4, p. 41, 1895: Sheikh 



Hussein, Arussi-Gallaland. 

 SPECiMEiss collected: 1 female, Moulu, Ethiopia, December 17, 1911. 



Sclater " considers lacwiim Neumann a synonym of smithii, but in 

 this he is mistaken, T. I. lacuum has the chin and upper throat dark 



O loo zeo 300 A-oo ■Too Mites 



• SCALE • 



Figure 9. — Distributiou of Turdoidcs leucopygia. 

 1. T. I. leucopygia. i- T. I. lacuum. 



2. T. I. limhata. 



3. T. I. smithii. 



5. T. I. omoensis. 



^^ Systema avium .Ethiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 354, 1930. 



