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So far as habits go, this is more akin to Turdinulus and Tri- 

 chastoma ; it is not nearly so close to crispifrons, which is really 

 a " little Thrush."— W. £>.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh : — 



Males. — Length, 5'45 to 5*75 ; expanse, 8'2 to 84; tail from 

 vent, 1-9 to 2-0 ; wing, 2*49 to 2-6 ; tarsus, 0'95 to 1-0; bill 

 from gape, 0*75 to 085 ; weight, 085 oz. 



Females. — Length, 5 5 to 5*7 ; expanse, 7*9 to 8*2 ; tail from 

 vent, 1-6 to 1-85 ; wing, 2*45 to 2-55 ; tarsus, 0-95 to TO; bill 

 from gape, 0-82 to 085 ; weight, 0*8 to 0*85 oz. 



Legs and feet and claws pale brown to pale fleshy brown ; 

 upper mandible very dark brown ; lower mandible plumbeous 

 to pale plumbeous ; irides deep brown, red brown, cinnamon 

 red. 



Lores and a broadish stripe completely over the eye, and ex- 

 tending a short distance beyond it, grey ; cheeks similar or browner ; 

 ear-coverts greyish or tinged with olivaceous brown, obscurely 

 centred paler ; chin, throat, and in some specimens middle of 

 upper part of breast, white, with dusky longitudinal striations ; 

 sides of the neck, sides of the breast, abdomen and flanks olivace- 

 ous brown ; the feathers tinged towards their margins with dull 

 ferruginous, which becomes the dominant color on the flanks and 

 lower tail-coverts, which latter are also often tipped obscurely 

 paler ; middle line of the abdomen, in some specimens greyish 

 white, the feathers a little suffused centrally with rusty olive, in 

 other specimens there is no white at all here, which is more or less 

 uniform pale rufesceut buff; the feathers of the sides of the ab- 

 domen not unfrequently show traces of pale greyish white 

 mesial lines ; the sides of the body and posterior part of the 

 flanks are darker, and more purely olivaceous, as indeed are 

 sometimes the anterior portion of the flanks also ; generally I 

 may say that some specimens are altogether darker and more 

 olivaceous below, and others are paler and more ferruginous, 

 and the white dusky-streaked throat band in some barely de- 

 scends to the base of the neck, in others extends half way down 

 the breast ; the wing-lining, which is extremely scantv, is grey 

 brown, one or two of the feathers tipped paler, and the rest 

 broadly tipped with rusty fulvous ; the bases of the external 

 frontal feathers are greyish, producing the effect of an obscure 

 greyish frontal band ; the whole of the rest of the top of the 

 head, back, and upper portion of sides of the neck, scapulars 

 and the upper and middle back clear light greyish olive, each 

 feather with the shaft greyish white, and margined all round with 

 black, running into deep brown, much like the same parts in 

 1\ crispifrons; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform 

 ferruginous brown, more rusty in some specimens, with more 

 of an olivaceous tinge in others ; wings deep hair brown, 



