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Mearns found this thrush in the juniper woods and also in the 

 neighboring open country. He noted it as a "sweet singer." Near 

 Aletta and vicinity, March 7-13, he saw about 1,000 of these birds 

 but unfortunately did not note whether they were migrant flocks or 

 whether the species is really so abundant a resident there. 



Table 24. — Measurements of 14 specimens of Turdus olivaceus abyssinicus from 



Ethiopia 



TURDUS TEPHRONOTUS Cabanis 



Turdus tephronotus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1878, p. 205, 218, pi. 3, fig. 2: 



Ndi, Teita district, Kenya Colony. 

 Specimens coixbxjted: 



1 male, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 5, 1912. 



1 male, Wobok, Ethiopia, June 18, 1912. 



1 male, Endoto Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 20, 1912. 



1 male, 25 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 29, 1912. 



1 female. Tana River, camp 3, Kenya Colony, August 16, 1912. 



Soft parts: Male (adult) — iris hazel to grayish brown; bill and 

 feet orange; bare orbital region orange to yellowish orange; claws 

 brownish. Immature male — iris garnet; bill and feet red; bare 

 orbital region yellow. 



The males from Wobok and Endoto Mountains are immature. 



Aside from the surprising difference in eye color recorded for im- 

 mature and adult birds, the colored figure referred to above shows 

 the bare eye region almost orange-red. 



The two Ethiopian specimens are some.what darker on the sides 

 and flanks than the three Kenyan birds, but a female from the 

 Dodoma district, central Tanganjdka Territory, is just as dark. Van 

 Someren ^° notes that specimens from "Lamu, Manda, and Juba River 

 are paler below than typical tephronotus with clear grey breast-bands, 

 lacking the ochraceous tinge, and with the throat area not outlined 



20 Nov. Zool.. vol. 29, p. 239, 1922. 



