TURDUS LIBONYANA. -Smith. 



AvES.— Plate XXXVIII.— Male. 



T. supra valde flavo-griseiis, vertice brunnco-tincto ; alarum tectricibus miiioribus, reraigium tcctricibus, 

 pogoniisque oxteniis brunneo-griseis, jirioribus aurantio-lavatis ; reuiigibus, intern^ versus basin 

 pallid^ aurantiis; gutture flavo-albo, utrinque fascia nigro-brunneo-maculata marginato ; pectore 

 flavo-griseo pallide aurantio tincto; abdominis lateribus aurantiis, medio crissoque albis; onulis 

 brunneis ; rostro pedibusque flavis. 



LoNGiTUDO, 9 unc. 



Merula Libonyana, Smith, Rep. of Exped. App. page 45. June, 183G. 



Colour. — Above deep yellowish grey, the top of the head strongly shaded 

 with brownish red. Shoulders, lesser wing coverts, quill coverts, and outer 

 vanes of quill feathers brownish grey ; the lesser coverts, and the secondary 

 quill coverts faintly tinted with pale buff orange, and the latter distinctly 

 edged with the same colour ; inner vanes of quill feathers brownish red, 

 broadly margined internally towards the base with pale buff-orange. The 

 two middle feathers of the tail and the outer vanes of the rest deep broccoli- 

 brown, the inner vanes brownish red, distinctly tipped and faintly margined 

 with white ; in certain lights all the feathers appear crossed by a great 

 number of bars of a darker tinge than the ground colour. Throat white 

 tinged with ochre-yellow, and margined on each side by a series of small 

 oval spots of a blackish brown colour, and so arranged as to form two longi- 

 tudinal bands, one extending from each side of the base of lower mandible. 

 Breast light yellowish gray, faintly tinged with pale Dutch-orange ; sides of 

 belly and inner surface of shoulders bright Dutch-orange ; middle of belly, 

 vent and under tail coverts white, many of the latter feathers brown towards 

 their base. Eyes dark brown, bill, feet, and claws, yellow, the latter clouded 

 with brown. 



Form, &c. — Typical. Bill nearly straight, the culmen slightly arched 

 towards the base, strongly towards the point; edges of under mandible in- 

 flected and received within those of the upper. Wings moderately long. 



