614 Mr. D. A. Bannerraan on the 



Island, where it was discovered by Fea in 1901, altliongh 

 Dohrii had already suspected the occurrence of some member 

 of the Turdidae during his residence on the island. 



Count Salvadori describes the bird as similar to T. 

 olivaceofuscus Hartl.^ but smaller, with a yellow bill and 

 pale-coloured feet, the dusky outer margins of the feathers 

 of the belly broader, and the pre-pectoral band not all one 

 colour but composed of feathers white in the middle and 

 with broad dusky margins. Above dark olivaceous^ nearly 

 uniform, below white ; the feathers of the throat spotted 

 with dusky, those of the belly broadly fuscous. The under 

 wing-coverts pale rufous, 



Signor Fea noted that it was not common and seemed to 

 be entirely confined to the western coast of the island. He 

 only succeeded in obtaining a single adult example. 



Although Count Salvadori assigns specific rank to this 

 Thrush, it would appear to be merely an insular representative 

 of Tardus olivaceofuscus which is confined to St. Thomas\ 

 Boyd Alexander obtained five specimens of the latter in 

 St. Thomas', but he unfortunately did not meet with the 

 new geographical race on Prince's Island. His remarks are 

 instructive as showing the extreme rarity of this island 

 Thrush, and I therefore quote the following passages from 

 the ' Diary of his Last Journey/ pp. 95_, 87 : — 



" March 4th, Prince's Island .... The remaining third of 

 the island — the ridge where my camp is now, marking its 

 northern boundary — is the mountainous portion of the 

 island .... The thickly wooded nature of the mountain 

 raised my hopes of getting some interesting species, in- 

 cluding Turdus xanthorhynchus, the Thrush obtained by Fea, 

 but my hopes were not realised. I found wonderful forest- 

 growth on the hill, and although I had a path cut almost to 

 the top to facilitate my collecting work, I was not rewarded. 



" March 17th. Left for West Bay, where there is another 

 large ro^a. We passed through it and made our camp a mile 

 or two to the south. I had hopes of finding here the new 

 Thrush, T. xanthorhynchus , found here by Fea ; but constant 

 searching in all the likely localities proved fruitless. I can- 



