TURDUS STREPITANS.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate XXXVII.— Male. 



T. sordid^ griseus ; fronte verticeque fortiter, nuclia, cervice, interscapiilaribus, scapularlbus, humerisqiie 

 leviter brunneo-tinctis ; subtus albus, bic illic, oclireo-tinctus ; cer^-icis lateribiis, pectore, abdomineque 

 maciilis pyriformibus notatis ; capitis lateribus albis ocbreo-tinctis et fasciis tribus variatis inferne 

 conjiinctis. Oculis rubro-brunncis. llandibula superiore, inferioris apice, unguibusque livido-brun- 

 neis ; mandibula inferiore, pedibusque flavis. Cauda breve leviter bifurcata. 



LoNGITUDO 8i line. 



Merula Letsitsirupa, Smitb, Rep. of Exped. App. p. 46. June, 1836. 



Colour. — Front and top of head brownish grey; occiput, upper aspect of 

 neck, interscapulars, scapulars and shoulders deep yellowish grey, faintly 

 shaded with brown ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts dirty ash-grey. Un- 

 der parts white, tinted in places with ochre-yellow, and the sides of the neck, 

 the whole of the breast, the flanks and the belly are variegated with blackish 

 brown pyriform spots, one on each feather, the large end reaching nearly to 

 its point. Sides of the head white, slightly tinted with ochre-yellow, and 

 each is variegated below the eyes with three blackish brown bands; the an- 

 teriormost proceeds from the base of the lower mandible, the second from the 

 middle of the under eyelid, and the third from the outer angle of the eye, the 

 first extends nearly horizontally, and the two others obliquely downwards and 

 backwards till they unite with the horizontal one. Primary wing coverts and 

 primary quill feathers deep brownish red, the latter tipped and edged exter- 

 nally with yellowish white ; the first two-thirds at least of the inner vanes of 

 these feathers are of a clear buff-colour, darkest towards the shafts ; the se- 

 condary wing coverts, and the secondary and tertiary quill feathers dark 

 greyish brown, the outer vanes lightest, all margined externally and tipped 

 with dirty white. Eyes reddish brown ; upper mandible and tip of lower 

 inferiorly as well as the claws liver-brown ; lower mandible elsewhere and the 

 cutting edge of upper pale saftVon-yellow. Feet and insides of bill deep 

 straw-yellow. 



Form, &c. — Figure robust and rather short. Bill long, and moderately 

 strong ; the upper mandible broad and slightly depressed towards the base. 



