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p. 80) says that he found it to be the commonest species of Thrush in Trinidad, especially frequenting 
the cocoa-plantations. 
“This Thrush,” says Léotaud, “ is resident and common in Trinidad, and, like 7. gymnophthalmus, 
is met with principally in the middle of the cocoa-plantations ; from this is derived its common name 
of ‘Grive des Cacaos. It is solitary in its habits, or is found only with the female, and its food 
consists principally of berries, but it also eats insects, especially ants and their larve and eggs. Its 
ways are like those of T. gymnophthalmus, and its flesh is very good." 
Adult. General colour above light tawny-brown or cinnamon; wing-coverts like the back, the 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills light sepia-brown, externally of the same colour as the 
back; tail-feathers reddish-brown, washed with tawny-brown on the margins; crown of head and 
sides of face a little duller than the back, and the ear-coverts with paler shaft-lines ; under surface of 
body light cinnamon-rufous, the throat somewhat whiter, with a few faintly indicated rows of brown 
triangular spots; thighs dusky brown ; lower abdomen whitish ; under tail-coverts white, with light 
rufous margins to the feathers; under wing-coverts and axillaries bright orange-rufous; quills dusky 
below, with the quilllining orange-rufous, nearly of the same tint as the under wing-coverts: 
“bill, feet, and iris brown” (Léotaud). Total length 8:5 inches, culmen 0:95, wing 4:6, tail 33, 
tarsus 1:25. 
This species seems to have a dark bill at all seasons of the year, and apparently varies but little 
in plumage. Тһе want of a series of sexed and dated specimens prevents me from describing all the 
seasonal changes, but the five examples from British Guiana obtained between December and May 
tend to show that the head is rather browner than the back in the summer plumage and the colour 
of the back is darker brown. In what I take to be the winter plumage the general colour is lighter 
rufous, and the head is like the back. Young birds after the first moult are similarly coloured. The 
underparts are also darker in the breeding-plumage and the chest is smudged with dusky brown, of 
which little or no trace is to be seen in the winter plumage. 
The sexes do not seem to differ in plumage, and measure as follows :— 
Total length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 
4 ай Camacusar 22.2 87 10 4-55 35 1:25 
о ad. -Camacusay 2... 84 0:9 4:85 3:85 12 
The specimen described is a skin from Venezuela in the Seebohm Collection. Тһе figure in the 
Plate is drawn from a Camacusa specimen in the same Collection. ГЕ. B. 6.) 
