NO. IO FOUR NEW AFRICAN THRUSHES — MEARNS 5 



shafts of quills white below ; feathers of lesser wing-coverts dusky 

 olive, broadly tipped with olive-brown, the outer row with terminal 

 fan-shaped spots of ochraceous-tawny ; median and greater wing- 

 coverts dark olive with large terminal fan-shaped white spots ; pri- 

 mary-coverts dark olive-buff, black terminally ; chin, throat, breast, 

 and flanks ochraceous-tawny, rapidly shading to white on abdomen 

 and thighs ; under tail-coverts white throughout ; bend of wing, and 

 axillars, white; under wing-coverts dark brown; basal portion of 

 inner webs of quills white, except the two outermost primaries ; bill 

 dark ; feet light. 



Measurements of type. — Length of skin, 208 ; wing, 105 ; spurious 

 primary, 28 ; tail, 87 ; culmen (chord), 21 ; tarsus, 35 (about) ; middle 

 toe, with claw, 27. 



Remarks.— This subspecies is more closely related to Geocichla 

 gurneyi otomitra Reichenow, inhabiting Kondeland, than to G. g. 

 kilimensis Neumann, the form occurring on Mount Kilimanjaro. 



