Plate LXXIV. 



TURDUS ALBIVENTRIS. 



(SPIX'S THEUSH). 



Turdus albiventer 



Turdus ephippiali 

 Turdus Tiumilis 



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



Cab. in Schomb. Ghiian. iii. p. 666 et Mns. Hein. p. 4, 



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



Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 124. 



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



Licht. in Mus. Berol. : Nomencl. p. 26. 



Supra olivaceo-brunneus, capite colloque cineracescentibus : subtus pallide cineraceus ; gula alba fusco striata ; 

 ventre medio crissoque pure albis : subalaribus et remigum marginibus internis lsete cinnamomeis : rostro et pedibus 

 fuscis : long, tota 9"0, alae 5 - 6, caudal 375. 



Ha b. in Brasilia orientali, Bahia (WucTierer) : Mexiana (Wallace): Para (Spix): Gruiana Brit. (Schomlurglc) : 

 Venezuela ; Cumana (Beauperthuy in Mus. Par.) : Nov. Granada int. (Mus. P.L.S.). 



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

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

 distinguished from the species figured in the three preceding plates by the deep cinnamomeous 

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

 In this character it resembles Turdus rufiventris, T. fumigatus and T. grayi ; from which, however, 

 it is easily distinguishable by other decided differences. 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 we have 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 forwarded 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 given to it by the latter Naturalist 

 a Minas Geraes," is probably intended for Turdus leucomelas, which, as has 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 Museum from Cayenne. 



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