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Birds from Northern Nigeria, the Gold Coast hinterland and 

 probablv Sénégal to the tvpical P. >nistacea mistacea (which was 

 described from Abvssinia). 



Caineroon birds are an intermediate form between P. m. mista- 

 cea and the race found in the Belgian Congo and Eastwards 

 {P. m. tenella). 



The Northern Angola birds belong to the South African race 

 P. m. affinis, 



(A fairly common bird found in the cocoa plantations near 

 Lagos. — W. P. L.) 



Family TURDIDAE. 



Turdus libonianus saturatus. 



Peliocichla satiirata Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1882, p. 320. — 

 Type locality : Cameroon. 



Three spécimens of Cabanis's Dusky Thrush were shot by 

 LowE at the Iju water works in January 1920. Previously it had 

 been obtained from Southern Nigeria by Robin Kemp at Abutschi 

 in September 1905. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve birds collected by both Nichol- 

 SON and Robin at Abeokuta, and from Ibi (July 1904) and Dororo 

 (August 1904) by BoYD Alexander in his famous journey from 

 the Niger to the Nile. 



T. l. saturatus extends from the Gold Coast to Loango (just 

 north of the mouth of the Congo river) and Eastwards into French 

 Equatorial Africa, for détails of distribution see following pages. 

 Mr WiLLOUGHBY Lowe's field notes are included hère. 



(A common berrv-feeding bird with a pleasant song, not unlike 

 our Thrush but not nearlv so loud. It showed no signs of 

 breeding in januarv when mv three spécimens were obtained. — 

 W. P. L.) ' ' 



