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and at Кей Abd-es-Ssenga in August (J. f. O. 1886, p. 577). Mr. F. Nicholson also records it 
from Abeokuta (Р. 7. 8. 1878, p. 129). In Togoland it has been procured on the Misa Heights 
by Mr. E. Baumann in May (Reichen. J. f. O. 1897, p. 51). Several specimens from Fantee are 
in the British Museum. Мі. Н. F. Blissett obtained it at Manpon in May and August, and on 
the River Prah in May (Seebohm, Cat. Dirds Brit. Mus. v. p. 231). Dr. Büttikofer records Т. pelios 
from Cape Grand Mount in Liberia (Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 176, 1885), and the specimen I have 
seen from this locality confirms his identification. 
Von Heuglin says that this Thrush lives in pairs along the banks of running streams in 
Abyssinia, and keeps more to the ground and the low bushes than to the high trees. Оп the Niger 
Mr. Hartert found the species not rare in high brush-wood, and says that the call-note greatly 
resembles that of the English Song-Thrush. 
А specimen from Shonga differs from some of the Abyssinian and Uganda examples in its pale 
grey chest and light orange-coloured flanks, the sides of the body being very little paler than the under 
wing-coverts and axillaries : “ bill orange-yellow ; feet dusky greenish-yellow or brownish-yellow ; 
iris brown" (ЈУ. A. Forbes). Total length 9:5 inches, culmen 0:9, wing 47, tail 3:6, tarsus 1:15. 
The light flanks and chest are probably only indications of the breeding-plumage. They are 
not specific characters, as I have compared some of the N.E. African specimens with the Niger ones, 
and they are identical. The Gold Coast birds are slightly darker, but do not attain to the deep 
tints of T. saturatus, which is a darker bird everywhere. 
Mr. Hartert says that in a young bird procured by him on the Niger, the bill was yellow, 
the feet pale brown, and the iris chestnut-brown. 
Adult. General colour above ashy-olive-brown, the head like the back ; wing-coverts like the 
back; bastacd-wing, primary-coverts, and quills light brown, externally ashy-olive like the back ; 
tail-feathers light brown, externally shaded with ashy-olive; lores and sides of face brown, with 
narrow whitish shaft-lines on the ear-coverts; feathers below the eye whitish ; cheeks whitish, 
streaked with blackish and with distinct blackish streaks along the malar line; throat white, with 
only a few dusky brown streaks ; lower throat, fore-neck, and chest dull ashy-brown, with dusky 
shaft-lines; breast paler ashy-brown; abdomen white; sides of body and thighs pale orange; 
under tail-coverts white, with a few of the feathers margined with brown near the base; under 
wing-coverts and axillaries bright orange-rufous ; quills dusky below, the quill-lining light orange- 
rufous: “bill yellow; feet pale greenish-yellow ; iris dusky brown” (Von Heuglin). Total length 
8 inches, culmen 0°85, wing 4°35, tail 3'5, tarsus 129: | 
Тһе description is taken from a specimen in the British Museum from Abyssinia, and the 
figure has been drawn from an Abyssinian example in the Seebohm Collection. ГЕ. B. 5.] 
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