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Ernst records it as an inhabitant of Venezuela (Estud. Flor. y Faun. Venez. p. 301, 1877), and a 
specimen from this country is in the Seebohm Collection in the British Museum and is figured in the 
present work as T'urdus pheopygoides. The type of the last-named species is also in the Museum ; 
it was procured in the island of Tobago by Governor Ussher. After a comparison with specimens 
from the mainland, I am unable to see any reason why the Tobago bird should be separated from 
T. pheopygus. Count von Berlepsch separates the Colombian form as Turdus pheopygus saturatus 
(1, s. с.), but specimens from Bogotá (coll. Seebohm and Salvin- Godman) are absolutely inseparable 
from T. pheopygus. Buckley obtained the species at Sarayacu in Ecuador, while Mr. O. T. Baron has 
met with it near Guayabamba in Peru in August, at 3800—4000 feet elevation. 
Beyond the note given by Léotaud, and recorded above, I have found no information as to the 
habits of this Thrush. Mr. Layard (Ibis, 1873, p. 378) says that he found seeds in the stomach of a 
specimen killed near Pará, while Léotaud states that its food consists of berries. 
Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, slightly russet in tint, becoming slaty-grey 
on the lower rump and upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts like the back; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally olive-brown, the inner secondaries entirely like the back ; 
tail blackish-brown, washed with slaty-grey ; lores slaty-blackish, with a slight supra-loral tinge of 
lighter grey, which also spreads a little below the eye; ear-coverts and cheeks uniform dusky olive- 
brown, the former slightly mottled with white streaks on thelower part; chin and upper throat white 
with dusky brown centres to the feathers, producing a striped appearance, this streaked area being 
sharply defined and succeeded by a conspicuous patch of white on the lower throat; fore-neck, breast, 
and entire sides of body light slaty-grey, the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white; 
thighs slaty-grey with whitish fringes to the feathers; sides of chest dark olive-brown like the sides 
of the neck ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light slaty-grey ; quills dusky below, slightly more 
ashy along the inner web. Total length 7:5 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 4, tail 2:9, tarsus 11. 
Adult female. Does not differ in colour from the male. Total length 7:5 inches, wing 1. 
Young birds are rather more rufescent than the old ones, but otherwise reproduce the same 
colours of the upper surface, excepting that the feathers are all mesially streaked with tawny-buff; 
the throat and centre of the breast and abdomen, as well as the under tail-coverts, are white, with 
dusky margins to the feathers of the throat; the chest and sides of the body are orange-buff, with 
rather broad blackish margins to the feathers, the white breast and abdomen being also slightly mottled 
with dusky margins to the feathers; under wing-coverts and axillaries orange-buff, with dusky bases. 
As already stated, І do not believe that the separation of Turdus pheopygoides from Т. pheopygus 
can be maintained, and my opinion is that the more russet or more olive colour of the upper parts is 
dependent on season, as is most certainly the case in 7. leucauchen. Specimens from British Guiana 
match the olive-coloured type of T. pheopygoides from Tobago, and the fine series collected in British 
Guiana by Whitely clearly shows that the more russet-coloured birds are those found from November 
to January, and the more olive-coloured ones are those procured in August and September after the 
moult. Whitely’s specimens represent the bird in nearly every month of the year and in every stage 
of plumage, and no one can doubt that 7. phwopygoides is only the winter plumage of T. pheopygus. 
The dimensions of this species vary considerably, and a difference in length of wing is of no 
importance in a series. 
The specimen figured as T. рћеорудив is from Yquitos, and is in the Seebohm Collection. 
ГЕ. B. 6.) 
