TURDUS DAGUZE Berlepsch. 
BERLEPSCH'S WHITE-THROATED THRUSH. 
Turdus dague, Berlepsch, Orn. Monatsb. v. p. 176 (1897). 
T. similis 7. leucaucheni, sed minor, saturatior; et rostro nigro distinguendus. 
Тнів species was obtained by Mr. Hopke in the neighbourhood of S. José, Dagua, in Western 
Colombia, in November and December 1896. Count von Berlepsch has described the species as 
nearly allied to 7. tristis (i.e. T. leucauchen), but says that it is a smaller bird, with a shorter 
and more slender bill, and having the upper surface darker brown and less rufous, the bill being 
also blackish. А second specimen, collected by Mr. Rosenberg at Cochabi, in Northern Ecuador, is 
in the possession of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
The species is so closely allied to 7. leucauchen that it is very doubtful if it can really be 
separated from it. Тһе specimen which Count von Berlepsch has presented to the Salvin-Godman 
Collection is hardly to be distinguished from a Veraguan skin in the same Collection. Тһе black bill 
and the darker coloration are merely indicative of 7. leucauchen in winter plumage, and I fully expect 
that T. dague will ultimately be found to be identical with the last-named bird (Sharpe, Bull. Brit. 
Orn. Club, vii. p. xxvi). ` ІК. B. S] 
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