ALETHE DFADEMATA. 167 



NOTE XXIV. 



NOTES ON timeliidj:. 



BY 



R BOWDLER SHARPE, 



F. L. S., F. Z. S. etc. Department of Zoology , British Miisev,m. 



During a visit to the Leyden Museum last September I was 

 able to examine several species of birds , which had not come 

 under my notice during the preparation of the Vtb volume 

 of the » Catalogue of Birds". Some of the species proved to 

 be very distinct and I greatly regret that they have been 

 omitted from the volume or relegated to foot-notes , as being 

 of doubtful validity. During the whole of the time that this 

 volume was going through the press, I was engaged in 

 the moving of the Zoological Collections from Bloomsbury to 

 South Kensington , and was unable to get abroad for my 

 accustomed course of study in foreign Museums. I am sensi- 

 ble that the value of this volume has been somewhat im- 

 paired by these omissions , and I publish these supplementary 

 notes , in order to supply descriptions of several species which 

 are wanting to its pages. 



Alethe diademata (Bp.), Sharpe , 1. c. p. 58. 



Turdus diadematus , Temm. MSS. in Mus. Lugd., undè 

 Bessonornis diadematus , Bp. Consp. I , p. 302. 



I had ventured to unite the species described as above with 

 the better known Alethe maculicauda of Hartlaub , and I was 



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