TURDUS PHEOPYGUS, Cab. 
CABANISS WHITE-THROATED THRUSH, 
Turdus pheopygus, Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 666 (1848); Scl. & Salv. Exot, Orn. 
p. 149, pl. Ixxv. (1869); Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 208 (1881). 
Planesticus pheopygus, Bp. С. В. xxxviii. р. 3 (1854). 
Merula pheopygus, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 453 (1883); Chapm. Bull. Amer. Mus. 
vi. p. 22 (1894). 
Turdus pheopygoides (nec Seebobm), Tacz. Orn. Pérou, i. р. 490 (1884). 
Turdus pheopygus saturatus, Berlepsch, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 326. 
Тнів species is characterized by the conspicuous white patch on the throat, by its slaty-grey axillaries, 
which resemble the sides of the body, and by its russet-brown or olive-brown back, which slightly 
contrasts with the slaty-grey upper tail-coverts. It differs from 7. jamaicensis, its nearest ally, in 
having the head of the same colour as the back. 
This Thrush was originally described from British Guiana by Dr. Cabanis in his account of the 
birds collected by Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. ііі. p. 666). From Guiana it ranges south to Amazonia, 
Ecuador, Eastern Peru, and Bolivia. 
Dr. A. R. Wallace met with the species near Pará, as did also Mr. Layard, who writes :—“ One 
was shot on September 8th from a flock of perhaps half a dozen individuals which flew across an 
open road in the forest, the Strada Braganza” (Ibis, 1873, p. 376). Natterer also obtained a 
specimen near Pará in October. Dr. A. R. Wallace procured specimens at Cobati on the Rio 
Negro (Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 568), and Natterer in the forests near Borba in December, near 
Castanheiro, on the Rio Negro, in the same month, and at Maribatanas in March (Pelz. Orn. Bras. 
p. 93). Higher up on the Amazons it has been found by Mr. Edward Bartlett at Chyavetas and 
Chamicuros in August (Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 255), and by Whitely at Yquitos on the 25th 
of September. Mr. Bartlett says that it is common in Eastern Peru, always in high and sandy 
country. Dr. Rusby states that he found the present species from the Falls of the Madeira to Bolivia ; 
it was seen, along with 7. gymnophthalmus, on the roads through the dense forests, but in the vicinity 
of cleared land (Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. ii. p. 78). 
The British Museum contains specimens from Cayenne (Selater Сой.), from Demerara (Eyton 
Coll.), and from the Maroni River in Surinam (Kappler; Clarence Bartlett). А young bird procured 
by the last-named collector was figured by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin in the ‘Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society for 1867 (pl. xxix.). А considerable series of specimens was obtained in 
British Guiana by Henry Whitely on Roraima in January, May, November, and December, at 
Bartica Grove in August, September, and December, at Camacusa in March and April, and on the 
Merumé Mountains at the end of July. 
In Trinidad Léotaud says that the species is usually met with in the forests of the interior in 
small flocks, except during the breeding-season, when they separate off into pairs. “In its motions 
this Thrush is a lively and active bird, and has a sweet, loud, and rather varied song, which is usually 
heard during the middle of the day, asin the morning and evening it is usually occupied in searching 
for the berries which constitute its food” (Ois. Trinidad, p. 197). Mr. Frank Chapman obtained 
specimens in Trinidad at Caparo and Caura. 
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