TURDUS SATURATUS (Саб). 
WEST-AFRICAN THRUSH. 
Turdus pelios, auct., ex Afr. occ. «equatoriali. 
Turdus icterorhynchus (nec Württ.), Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 43. 
Turdus libonyanus (пес Smith), Reichen. J. f. O. 1871, p. 30. 
Peliocichla saturata, Cab. J. f. O. 1882, p. 320. 
Turdus pelios, var. saturatus, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 167. 
Turdus saturatus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1896, p. 66. 
T. similis T. pelio, sed ubique saturatior: preepectore saturaté brunneo. 
Trs is merely a dark race of 7. pelios, which it replaces in the forest districts of West Africa from 
the Cameroons and Loango, and it probably extends throughout the Congo Region to the west of 
the Nile watershed, but of this we have no evidence at present. 
Specimens are in the British Museum from the Cameroons, whence also Dr. Reichenow has 
recorded the species (J. f. O. 1896, p. 66). The Museum has also examples from Gaboon (cf. Verr. 
Rev. Zool. 1855, p. 417), and Cassin says that Du Chaillu obtained this Thrush on the Camma, 
Moonda, and Muni Rivers (Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 42). My friend the late Henry Ansell also 
sent it from the Ogowé River and the Elobe district in Gaboon (Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. 
p. 231). On the Loango coast it was obtained by Dr. Falkenstein (Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 30), 
and Dr. Lucan and M. Petit met with it at Chinchonxo on the Lower Congo (Sharpe and Bouvier, 
Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 43). Several specimens procured by these travellers at Landana 
are in the Seebohm Collection. 
Adult male. Similar to T. eryptopyrrhus and Т. pelios, but everywhere darker in colour, 
especially on the throat and chest, the blackish streaks on the former being small and nearly 
obsolete; the flanks deep orange-rufous, like the under wing-coverts and axillaries: “bill golden- 
yellow; feet pale flesh-colour ; iris hazel-brown ” (A. Reichenow). Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:9, 
wing 4:6, tail 3'5, tarsus 1:15. 
Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 8:5 inches, culmen 0:9, wing 4:2, tail 3-1, 
tarsus 1:1. 
| The descriptions are taken from specimens in the Seebohm Collection from Landana, and the 
hinder figure on the Plate is drawn from a Landana skin in the same Collection. (В. B. 6.1 
