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rufous as in H. a. somas, or the black colour is only faintly- 

 indicated, and the scapulars are without black middles. The 

 two last-named characters serve to distinguish this species 

 from H. australis, H. emini, H. frater, H. congener, &c. 

 Wing, S 76-79 mm., ? 72 mm. 



Hab. North Angola. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . Pungo Andongo, 

 3. vii. 03. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Obs. In the three specimens available for examination the 

 bill is not entirely black. In two it is almost horn-colour, 

 while in the third the upper mandible and the terminal half 

 of the lower mandible are black. Probably the colour of 

 the bill changes at different seasons. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert called attention to the differences 

 between British and Continental examples of the Song- 

 Thrush. He pointed out that the non-migratory race 

 breeding in Great Britain and Ireland differed in the 

 warmer, more rufous colour of the upper surface, especially 

 the rump; these parts being more olive-brown, generally 

 paler and with a faint greenish tinge, in the birds breeding 

 on the Continent and migrating to the Mediterranean 

 countries in winter. The underside of the British race 

 was often more heavily spotted, and this Avas especially 

 conspicuous in specimens from the Hebrides, while others 

 from the same islands were in every way similar to English 

 examples. For this reason Dr. Hartert did not, for the 

 present, distinguish more than one British race, which he 

 proposed to call 



TURDUS PHILOMELOS CLARKEI, Subsp. n., 



in honour of Mr. Eagle Clarke, who had first called his 

 attention to the dark coloration of the British race. 



The difference had also been noticed by Messrs. C. B. and 

 N. F. Ticehurst, Mr. Bonhote, and other British ornitho- 

 logists. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Tring, Herts, 16. v. 02. 



Dr. Hartert mentioned that the correct name of the 



