TURDUS CRYPTOPYRRHUS, Cab. 
SENEGAMBIAN THRUSH. 
Turdus pelios, pt. (nec Bp.), Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 75 (1857). 
Turdus chiguancoides, Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 231 (1881). 
Peliocichla cryptopyrrha, Cab. J. f. O. 1882, p. 320. 
Psophocichla cryptopyrrha, Heine & Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 5 (1882). 
Turdus pelios, хат. eryptopyrrhus, Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 166. 
T. rostro et pedibus flavis: subtüs albicans, prepectore et pectore summo cum hypochondriis cinerascenti- 
brunneis, minimé (ptil. Мет.) vel obsolete rufescenti-fulvo (ptil. estiv.) adumbratis : tibiis albidis. 
THE name of Turdus chiguancoides, Seebohm, is undoubtedly the first actually published for this 
species, but in 1882 Dr. Cabanis protested that Mr. Seebohm had overlooked the fact that it 
bore the name of Turdus cryptopyrrhus in the Heine and Berlin Museums, although he had 
taken a note of this fact. This had doubtless escaped his memory, but that he had intended to 
sink his name of chiguancoides for Cabanis's name of eryptopyrrhus is evident from the fact that he 
had thus lettered the Plate. 
In any case І think that Seebohm's name could not be employed, any 
more than names like bullockoides, nubicoides, and similar dreadful compositions of Sir Andrew 
Smith's. It is a little surprising that the editor of the ‘ Catalogue of Birds 
' did not suppress such 
a name at once. 
T. eryptopyrrhus is a very dark-coloured Thrush, with the rufous on the flanks obsolete or only 
faintly represented. It is, according to the specimens examined by me, confined to Senegambia, 
1 e not very common, as but few examples are in European museums, and 
Rendall only obtained one specimen during his residence in that country (Ibis, 1892, 
In my African collection, now in the British Museum, are two specimens received from 
the neighbourhood of Bathurst (Sharpe, Cat. Coll. Afr. B. p. 21), and the collectors of the Maison 
Verreaux sent the species from Casamance and Galam (Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 75). 
It has also been recorded by Dr. Reichenow from the Misa Heights in Togoland, where it was 
obtained in May by Dr. Baumann, and where it breeds. I feel sure, however, that the Togo Thrush 
is 7. pelios and not its Gambian representative. 
Dr. Reichenow, in a letter, informs me that in the type specimen of 7. eryptopyrrhus from 
Casamanee, in the Berlin Museum, there is not a trace of any rust-colour on the flanks ; and this is 
certainly the case with the type of T. chiguancoides, which I take to be a bird in <“ winter " plumage, 
as the fore-neck and breast are dusky-brown. In a specimen in the Liverpool Museum, obtained at 
Bathurst by Dr. Percy Rendall, and evidently in breeding-plumage, from the worn condition of the 
feathers, the under surface is white, including the thighs and under tail-coverts, and the fore-neck 
and chest are pale ashy-brown. Оп the sides of the body, however, is a faint tinge of fawn-colour, 
and this I believe to be developed only in the breeding-season. 
Adult. General colour above ashy-brown slightly tinged with olive; the head like the back, and 
the lower back, Tump, and upper tail-coverts slightly more ashy; wing-coverts like the back; 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, externally ashy-olive; tail-feathers light sepia- 
