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General colour above brown, with obsolete lighter edgings to the 
feathers, the wings and tail much darker brown; the lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts inclining to sandy brown, the latter 
darker; crown of head, sides of face and throat hoary grey, the 
feathers tipped with the latter colour, the grey colour especially 
distinct over the eye and on the ear-coverts; lores and plumes 
below the eye black; plumes of the throat and fore-neck brown, 
margined with hoary grey; rest of under surface of body pale 
fulvous brown, inclining to white near the vent; thighs and under 
wing-coverts brown. Total length, 9°5 inches; culmen, 0:9; wing, 
4:4; tail 4°7; tarsus, 1°4. « 
198. AxrHocIcHLA GYMNOGENYS.* Bare-faced Babbling-Thrush. 
This handsome species was described by Dr. Hartlaub from a 
specimen obtained by Mr. Monteiro in Benguela, and Senor 
Anchieta has procured it at Capangombe in Benguela and in 
_ Mossamedes. Mr. Monteiro says that they were “ common at Novo 
Redondo and Benguela in the thick wood and under brush, flying 
in small flocks, and most discordantly noisy.” 
Adult.—Crown of head and nape white; hinder neck and the 
sides of the same tawny rufous; upper surface of body dark brown, 
with indistinct rufous-buff edgings to the feathers inclining to 
whitish on the outer wing-coverts; wings blackish brown; lower 
back greyish brown; rump white; upper tail-coverts brown with 
greyish tips; tail blackish brown; sides of face, region round the 
eye and ear-coverts, bare; cheeks and chin white; rest of under 
surface creamy white; the sides of the body, under wing-coverts, 
and inner webs of quills, tawny rufous; the throat and fore-neck 
with transverse bars of dusky brown. Total length, 9°3 inches; 
culmen, 0°9; wing, 4°2; tail, 4°3; tarsus, 1:25. 
199. NuocicHLa GurTURALIS. Anchieta’s Babbling-Thrush. 
[The present bird was described by Professor Barboza du Bocage 
as a Crateropus, but he pointed out at the time that it was rather an 
* Although described as a Crateropus, it seems to me advisable to institute 
a distinct genus for this bird on account of its naked face, a most prominent 
character.— R. B. 8. 
