TURDUS CINERASCENS, Reichen. 
TABORA THRUSH. 
Turdus libonyanus (nec Smith), Schalow, J. f. O. 1883, p. 367; Emin, J. f. O. 1891, p. 60. 
Turdus libonyanus, pt., Reichen. Vóg. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 233 (1894). 
Turdus cinerascens, Reichen. Orn. MB. vi. p. 82 (1898). 
T. similis T. verreauxi: prepectore pallidé cinerascente, minimé aurantiaco lavato: suprà brunnescenti-griseus, 
nec brunneus, minimé olivascens: corporis lateribus claré aurantiaco-rufis. 
Dr. Reicuenow has separated this species from T. /ibonyanus and T. verreauxi. Не has specimens 
in the Berlin Museum obtained by Emin Pasha at Tabora, and by Bóhm at Kakoma. 
This race of T. libonyanus is said by Dr. Reichenow to be very closely allied to 7. schuetti from 
Angola, but differs from the latter in its pale ashy fore-neck and chest, which show no shade of an 
orange wash. Тһе upper surface is said to be of a brownish-grey colour, instead of being brown, 
without a tint of olive, and the sides of the body are clear orange-rufous. 
These characters answer so well for some of the specimens of T. verreauxi from South-western 
Africa that I have grave doubts as to whether T. cinerascens is distinct from the last-named species, 
and I expect that, when allowance has been made for the difference of plumage due to season, 
T. verreauxi апа T. cinerascens will both be found to be seasonal variations of T. tropicalis. 
Bóhm says that it was not very plentiful near Kakoma on the edges of roads and in the 
savanna. Of a male bird procured in April he gives the soft parts as follows :-“ Feet and claws 
pale brownish-yellow, the iris brown, and the gape and eyelid bright yellow " (cf. Schalow, J. f. O. 
1883, p. 367). Another male obtained in March had the “bill yellow, with the tip greyish-horn- 
colour; behind the eye a bare space of yellow; the feet horny-buff." 
A male bird obtained by Emin Pasha at Tabora in Uniamyembe in August had the “ bill 
bright orange-red; feet orange-yellow ; iris umber-brown ; bare spot behind the eye and eyelid 
vinaceous-red.” Another male had the “eyelids yellow, and the bare spot behind the eye grey ” 
(Emin, J. f. O. 1891, p. 60). [R. B. S.] 
