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165. Geocichla gurneyi piaggi.e. 



Turdus gurneyi piaggcR Bouvier ; Neumann^ J. f. O. 1906, 

 p. 286. 



Geocichla piaggKB Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. 

 p. 368 (1910). 



Piaggia's Ground-Thrush was met with in KafFa in June 

 and in Gofa in July. Bouvier's type-specimen of Turdus 

 piaggiae (sic) was procured at Lake Sanne, Uganda, and is 

 perfectly similar to the birds in the present collection. I 

 have been unable to locate Lake Sanne ; and Mr. Milne, 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, lias been unable to 

 assist me in the matter. Sharpe (cf. ' Seebohm's Monograph 

 of the Turdidse,' i. p. 309 (1899)) was no doubt mistaken in 

 believing it to be another name for Lake Tsana, in Abyssinia, 

 but he was not then aware that this Thrush .occurred in 

 Uganda. It has been procured at Marsabit and Eldoma 

 Ravine, and many were obtained by the Ruweuzori Expe- 

 dition at elevations of from 5000-6000 feet. 



166. TuRDUS OLIVACEUS ABYSSINICUS. 



Turdus abyssinicus Gmel.; Sharpe, in Seebohm^s Monogr. 

 Turdidte, i. p. 309 (1899) ; Ogilvie-Graut, Trans. Zool Soc. 

 xix. p. 368 (1910). 



In the Abyssinian Thrush the coloration of the chin and 

 upper part of the throat varies a good deal in different 

 individuals. In one female from Addis Abbaba (October, 

 iris browu-black, bill reddish-orange, feet orange) these 

 parts are unusually white and distinctly streaked with 

 blackish, much as in typical examples of T. olivaceus, Linn., 

 from South Africa, but in the latter the white area extends 

 over the whole throat and the black streaks are coarser. 

 Other examples from Goiuma, Kaffa, Kullo and Gofa (May 

 to July) have the chin and throat dusky like the chest, and 

 only faintly streaked. These differences may be seasonal. 

 An immature female with the breast heavily spotted with 

 black was killed in Kullo, at 8000 feet, on the 17th 

 of June. 



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