902 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
All the upper parts very dark olive-brown; throat underneath 
dirty white, speckled with dark brown ; breast cinereous-brown ; 
belly and flanks deep rufous; vent dirty white; a few dark-brown 
spots are distributed on the chest, flank, and vent; upper mandible 
horn-colour; lower mandible and legs orange; bill yellow, the 
ridge of the upper mandible dark brown; feet pale yellow; iris, 
light ashy brown (Ayres). Length, 10’’; wing, 4’’ 9'’’; tail, 3’’ 9’”’. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pls. 98, 99. 
184, TuRDUS GURNEYI. Gurney’: Thrush. 
Very little is known of this fine Thrush. Mr. Ayres observes 
concerning it: ‘ This bird I shot in the bush on a precipitous range 
of hills about six miles beyond Pieter-Maritzburg ; it is, I believe, 
the only one I have seen, and I know nothing of its habits.” It has 
occurred once in Abyssinia, but is represented on the west coast of 
Africa by the closely allied species, Twrdus crossleyi, Sharpe.* 
Above, olive-brown; spots between the eye and the bill, throat, 
chest, and flanks, cinnamon ; belly and under tail-coverts, pure white ; 
tail, coloured as the back; two rows of white spots across the wing, 
bill, dusky; iris, hazel; tarsi and feet, dusky (Ayres). Length, 
6" 5’; wing, 4” 5/’’; tail, 3” 3’’’. 
‘Fig. Gurney, Ibis, 1864, pl. 9. 
185. TuRDUS VERREAUXI. Verreaux’ Thrush. 
This Thrush was discovered by Senor Anchieta at Caconda in 
Benguela, and the following is a translation of Professor Barboza du 
Bocage’s original description :— 
Of rather small size: above grey; the eyebrow fulvous white, 
the ear-coverts streaked with dusky; underneath whitish-buff ; 
the chin, throat, and breast, marked with dusty triangular spots; 
middle of the abdomen and vent, whitish; the sides of the body, 
pale buff, the feathers bordered with dusky at the tip ; under wing- 
coverts fulvous; quills, dusky brown, margined on the inner web 
with fulvous ; greater wing-coverts spotted at the tip with fulvous; 
tail greyish, obsoletely banded with dusky ; bill, horn-colour ; feet, 
pale; iris, brown. First primary very short, the second equal to 
the 5th. Total length, 8°8 inches ; wing, 5°0; tail, 3°55 ; tarsi, 1:1; 
bill, 1-05. 
* Mr. Gurney has just presented a second specimen to the British Museum: 
it was obtained by Mr. Ayres in the Macairac district,—R. B. 8. 
