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at an altitude of 6000 or 7000 feet. Its only note of alarm that he heard was “ kök.” It appeared 
to be entirely a bird of the forests and was never seen in the brushwood (Tacz. Orn. Pérou, i. 
р. 496). 
Adult male. Entirely black above and below, with black wings and tail: “bill and feet yellow; 
iris hazel ; eyelid yellow” (Stolzmann): “ bill, rim round the eye, legs, and feet orange” (Fraser). 
Total length 9:8 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4:9, tail 3:6, tarsus 1:3. 
Adult female. General colour above dark olivaceous brown, gradually inclining to deep 
chocolate-brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts; the tail-feathers sepia, externally washed 
with chocolate-brown ; wing-coverts like the back, the quills dark sepia, the primaries externally 
reddish-brown, and the secondaries more like the back; crown of head and sides of face dark 
olivaceous-brown, like the back; throat and under surface of body dingy rufous-brown, slightly 
clearer on the breast, abdomen, and flanks, the under tail-coverts chestnut; under wing-coverts and 
axillaries rufous-brown; quills light sepia below, washed with ashy: “bill brown; feet pale 
brown; iris dark hazel" (Stolzmann). Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0:95, wing 4:7, tail 4:5, 
tarsus 1:4, 
According to Taczanowski, young birds have the upper parts olive-brown, as in the old female, 
with the lower throat, breast, and abdomen of a dull greyish-rufous, waved with brown. 
The male described and figured in the Plate is one from Antioquia in the Seebohm 
Collection. The female is figured from a specimen obtained by Fraser at Puellaro and now in the 
Sclater Collection in the British Museum. Dr. Sclater has compared this skin with the type of 
Tschudi's Turdus serranus, so there can be no doubt that the figure of this specimen in the Plate 
represents the typical M, serrana. The description of the female has been taken from the same 
specimen. (Б. В. 86.1 
