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mentioned in von Pelzeln’s paper on the Himalayan and Thibet Birds collected by 
Dr. Stoliczka (Journ. f. Ornith. 1868, p. 30; Ibis, 1868, p. 312), is an allied, but cer- 
tainly not the same, species. A specimen from Kotegurh, in the north-west Himalaya, 
collected by Dr. Stoliczka and procured from von Pelzeln (s. n. A. sordidus, Riipp.), is 
at once distinguished by having the primaries narrow, the secondaries and quill-coverts 
broad, margined with ochre-fulvous on the outer web; the outermost tail-feather is, 
except the black basal half of the inner web, of the same colour, the second tail-feather 
has a broad fulvous apical spot running on both webs; the under surface is light fulvous 
with some obsolete dark blotches on the throat. This Indian species, not being the 
A. sordidus of Riippell, merits a new name. I propose to call it Anthus jerdont. 
Guérin, in the Zoology of the ‘ Voyage en Abyssinie,’ by Ferret et Galinier, p. 228, 
describes a specimen of A. sordidus which has on the breast some dark striz, like the 
specimen no. 794. He says, that species is not rare at the Cape of Good Hope; but I 
could never find any reference to its existence in that locality.—0. F. 
[Iris brown; beak pink flesh-colour, the upper mandible somewhat darker; legs and 
feet pink flesh-colour. 
I only procured one other specimen at Waliko. This bird perches on trees.—W. J.] 
Fam. TURDID. 
81. Turpus sImEnsis, Riipp. 
Turdus simensis, Ripp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 29. f. 1; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 60. no. 190; Brehm, 
Habesch. p. 214. no. 65. 
a. 6. Taconda. April 21st, 1868 (no. 417). 
6, c,d. 2. Taconda. April 21st, 1868 (nos. 408, 414, 492). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
4lt git_5l gl gi 4il_git 5M g!'_jol" 16 uw teases Abyssinia. 
410 4 11 2 1 10 O 142 -16"” . . . South Africa. 
Prince Bonaparte and Dr. Hartlaub unite this species, as the young bird, with 7. 
strepitans, Smith (7. crassirostris, Licht.)—but erroneously, as it is always to be distin- 
guished by having the superciliary stripe, sides of head, breast, and sides of the belly 
strongly tinged with cinnamon fulvous, instead of white, washed faintly with pale 
ochraceous. Otherwise both species are similar. 
The 7. stmensis from Sierra Leone, mentioned by Professor Sundevall (CEfvers. Akad. 
Forh. 1849, p. 157), belongs to the true 7. strepitans, which is therefore not restricted 
to the south.—0. F. 
[Iris brown ; beak—upper mandible blackish brown, lower one yellowish; legs and 
feet brown. 
I never saw this bird alive; the four specimens in my collection were sent me, in the 
Jlesh, by a friend who shot them in the Taconda Pass.—/. J.] 
