13. TtTRDINTJS. 543 



web. Total length 5*7 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3, tail 2-3, tarsus 1. 

 (Mus. R. G. WarcUaw Ramsay.) 

 Hah. Northern Celebes. 



a. Ad. sk. N. Celebes. Capt. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay. 



3. Turdinus gidaris. (Plate XIV.*) 



Illadopsis gularis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 474; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 57. 

 Tricliastoma gularis, Sharpe, Ann. i!j- Mag. IS at. Hist. (4j x. p. 451 



(1872). 

 Trichostoma fulvescens (tion Cass.), Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, 1877, p. 479. 



Adult. General colour above dark fulvous-brown, the head like 

 the mantle, with an ashy shade on the forehead ; the lower back 

 and rump, as well as the under tail-coverts, rather more reddish 

 brown ; wing-coverts a little deeper fulvous than the back, the 

 greater series more reddish brown on their outer edges ; quills 

 dusky brown, externally fulvous-brown, rather more reddish on the 

 outer web of the secondaries ; tail-feathers olive-brown, with red- 

 dish-brown margins ; lores ashy whitish ; feathers around and 

 below the eye light ashy grey ; ear-coverts pale fulvous-brown ; 

 cheeks white, washed with ashy ; throat ashy white, as also the 

 centre of the abdomen ; fore neck and breast, as weU as the sides 

 of the body, pale fulvous-brown, deepening into rich fulvous or 

 reddish brown on the flanks and under tail-coverts : thighs ashy ; 

 under wiug-coverts pale fulvescent brown, with ashy-whitish bases ; 

 quills sepia-brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 6*5 inches, cirlmen 0"8, wing 2-95, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 1. 



Obs. The specimen from the Congo is not typical, as it is rather 

 larger, has the head uniform with the mantle, and the ear-coverts 

 darker ashy grey. Total length 6*9 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3, 

 tail 2*5, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Forests of Denkera in the interior of the Gold Coast, 

 extending into Aguapim, and occurring also in the Congo district. 



«. Ad. sk. Benkeva. (Gov. Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Denkera (Aiibiiin). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Denkera {Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Abokobi, Aguapim. Governor Lssher [C.]. 



ff. Ad. sk. Chissambo, Congo. Dr. A. Lucan [C.]. 



4. Turdintis finschi. 



Tiichostoma celebeuse, TJ'akl. Trans. Z. S. viii. p. G2 (1872, nee 



Strickl. ). 

 Trichostoma finschi, Wald. Ibis, 1876, p. 378, pi. xi. fig. 1. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dark olive- 

 * Lettered Trichostoma gulare on the plate by mistake. 



