Plate LXXIV. 



TURDUS ALBIVENTPJS. 



(SPIX'S THEUSH). 



Tardus albiventer 



Tardus ephippialii 

 Turdus liumilis 



Spis, Av. Bras. i. p. 70, t. 69, f. 1. 



Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 666 et Mus. Hein. p. 



Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 568. 



Burm. Syst. TJeb. iii. p. 124. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1862, p. 109 et Cat. Am. B. App. p. 358. 



Liclit. iu Mus. Berol. : Nomencl. p. 26. 



Supra olivaceo-brunneus, capite coUoque cineracescentibus : subtua pallide cineraceus ; gula alba fusco striata ; 

 ventre medio crissoque pure albis : subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis Isete cinnamomeis : rostro et pedibu3 

 fuseis : long, tota 9'0, alse 5"6, caudae 3"75. ' ' 



JTaS. in Brasilia orientali, Baliia (Wticherer) : Mesiana {Wallace): Para (Spix) : G-uiana Brit. [Schoniburglc) : 

 Venezuela; Cumana {Tieauperthuy in JSIus. Par.') : Nov. Granada int. (JIus. JP.L.S.). 



There can be no question, we think, that, as Dr. Cahanis' has pointed out, the bird figured 

 by Spix as the male of his Turdus albiventer is this Thrush, which may be immediately 

 disting-uished from the species figured in the three preceding plates by the deep cinnamomeous 

 ander-wing coverts, and by this colour being extended over the inner edges of the remiges. 

 n this character it resembles Turdus rufiventris, T. fumigatus and T. yraiji ; from which, hoAvever, 

 _: is easily distinguishable by other decided difierences. From T. albicollis^ with which it has 

 been likewise confounded, this Thrush is easily recognisable by the complete absence of the 

 white neck-spot, more nearly resembling T. leucomelas in this respect. 



In contrast to what Ave liaA^e observed as regards the last species, the present bird appears 

 to have an extended range in South America, from the neighbourhood of Bahia in Brazil 

 to the vicinity of Bogota in New Granada. It occurs, not unfrequently, in collections formed 

 in the province of Bahia, whence Dr. Wucherer has recently forAA-arded us specimens. 

 Mr. Wallace collected examples in the island of Mexiana, near Para, thus confirming one of 

 the localities assigned to it by Spix. The other locality giA^en to it by- the latter Naturalist 

 " Minas Geraes," is probably intended for Turdus leucomelas., AA'hich, ashas been already noted, 

 is figured as by Spix the female of the present species. 



Proceeding northwards we find this Thrush occurring in Schomburgk's list of the birds 

 of British Guiana, and recorded by Cabanis as existing in the Berlin ]\Iuseum from Cayenne, 



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