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Prince Maximilian writes concerning the species in Brazil:—* This Thrush is not uncommon 
in the region through which I travelled, and I frequently observed it in Espirito Santo. It inhabits 
not only the large woods, but is also found in thinly scattered bushes. I have never heard it give 
forth any particular song. Its nest is built in thick bush, placed either on a large bough or on the 
fork of a branch. It exactly resembles that of our European Blackbird, and is fairly large, being 
built of small green plant-stems, interwoven with dry roots and lined with delicate fibres and rootlets, 
In December I found a nest containing three eggs; they were of a beautiful green, speckled with 
liver-brown, somewhat elongated in shape and very blunt at the end." 
Professor J. A. Allen describes the eggs sent by Mrs. Herbert Smith from Chapada as follows :— 
“Sets of eggs, taken at different dates in October, show them to be very variable in size and form 
as well as in colour. They are generally elongated, measuring about 1:15 х "90 inch. The ground- 
colour varies from pale clear bluish white to a pale yellowish bluish white; the markings are 
generally fine, in the shape of oblong reddish-brown dots, covering from about one-third to 
nearly the whole of the surface. The markings vary in colour from russet-brown to hazel” ` 
Adult. General colour above olive-brown, becoming more ashy on the lower back, rump, and 
uppec tail-coverts; the wing-coverts slightly more russet-brown, the bastard-wing, primary-coverts 
and quills being light sepia-brown, externally russet-brown like the wing-coverts ; СА ТЕЛЕНЕҢ 
sepia-brown, with a tinge of ashy ; crown of head, nape, and hind-neck ashy-grey, contrasting with 
the back; lores whitish; sides of face ashy-grey, with obsolete whitish shaft-lines; cheeks also 
ashy-grey, the malar line white; throat white, streaked with rows of triangular spots of dusky brown; 
fore-neck and breast light ashy, as well as the upper abdomen; the lower abdomen and under 
tail-coverts white, with dusky brown bases, the longer tail-coverts dusky brown, edged with white ; 
thighs light ashy ; sides of body ashy, slightly washed with brown; axillaries and under wing-coverts 
bright orange; quills dusky below, light along the inner webs. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:85 
wing 4:65, tail 8:55, tarsus 1:2. 8 
Тһе specimen described is one from Dahia in the Seebohm Collection. Examples from Forte 
do Rio Branco, procured by Natterer in February, are much more olive-grey on the back and breast 
than one killed at the same place in November. Тһе latter example is much more russet-brown above 
and below, and this shade predominates still more in a specimen obtained by Natterer at Ypanema in 
May. Here the general tone of the upper surface is pale cinnamon-brown, shaded with ashy, and the 
breast and flanks incline to light brown, a little more rufous on the flanks. This last bird is probably 
in winter plumage, and the grey of the head is very little differentiated, being almost of the same 
colour as the back. For the loan of these specimens I am indebted to Dr. Lorenz von Liburnau 
who kindly lent them from the Vienna Museum for examination. 
Of the series sent from Chapada by Mrs. Herbert Smith, Prof. J. A. Allen writes as follows:— 
“This species is represented by a series of 19 specimens, including about an equal number of males 
and females, one young bird in first plumage, and also a nest and two sets of eggs. These latter 
were taken Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, and the full-grown fledgling on Nov. 28. Specimens were collected 
in nearly every month of the year, showing the species to be resident. i 
“There is considerable seasonal variation in colour, that of breeding birds (taken Oct.-Nov.), 
as compared with specimens collected in March and April, often representing a strong shade of 
cinnamon on the breast and abdomen, of which there is only a very slight trace in what may be 
termed winter specimens. The forehead is often decidedly brownish or washed with rusty, 
irrespective of season, though generally most strongly so in the female, which has the whole head 
usually browner and more nearly concolor with the back than in the male. The female also 
averages slightly smaller than the male, in which the wing ranges from 4:45 in. to 4:76, against 4:28 
to 4 54 in the female. 
