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The Birds of Gambia. 
Feb. loili, 1909: "A whitish-breasted Thrush coloured above like a 
pale hen Blackbird and slightly smaller than that bird. A pair seen on the 
BateUing load." 
April, 1909 : "Saw another like this once 01 twice in a Mango-tree at 
Sabaji, Konibo. It was whistling londh." 
The following notes refer to otherThrush-like birds I have seen, but 
at the identity of which I cannot even guess, although I should know theiii 
if I saw them again and if, later on, 1 can shoot one, I hope then to be able 
to ascertain the species." 
April 1st, 1907 : " At Bondali, h'ogni, saw a Thrush with the colour 
and carriage of a .Spotted I-'lycatcher, but about the size of a Wheateai. A 
very Robin-like eye and head." 
April 24th, 1907 : " Bathurst. lu one of the gardens I saw a bird 
which I had never met before. The size of a Robin, grey with olive-green 
shoulders ; Robin-like carriage and eye, with a strong suggestion of a 
' Pekin Nightingale' about its general appearance." 
May I2th, 1907 : " .Saw several of the brown birds like large Robins 
ill the scrub round Diinku. Niunii. They suggest both a Robin and a 
Flycatcher in appearance." 
Nov., 1908 : " Saw another at Brekania, Koinbo." 
Tlie Bondali, Dunku and Brekama birds were certainly all of the same 
species, but the bird seen in the Bathuist garden was quite different. I had 
never seen it before nor have I since. 
Phoenicurus p/ioe>iicni us. RK I),ST.'\RT. 
Range. Kurope, Asia; Equatorial Africa in winter. (H.L.) 
Occasionally seen in Gambia during the winter. 
P. mesoleucus. EHRENBERG'S SUNBIRI). 
Range. Caucasus, etc. Senegambia in winter. (H.L.) 
Differs from P. phoenicufus in having a conspicuous white alar patch, 
while the upper parts are darker and the orange below rather redder. 
December 22nd, 1905. McCarthy Island. .Saw a Redstart quite 
different fiom the ordinary kind. I now think it must have been this 
species, though it may have been the common Redstart in winter plumage 
when the blacks and whites are dulled as the feathers have brown edges. 
Daulias liiscinia. NIGHTINGALE. 
Range. Europe, etc., West and 8.E. Africa in winter. {H.L. 
I think I saw one during niy tour in the Gambia in 1902, ami am sure 
I saw another at McCarthy in January, 1907. 
Cercotiichas podobe. RUFOUS-WINGED THRUSH. 
Range. Senegambia and North-east Africa. (H.L.) 
General colour above and below sooty black; wings darkish brown 
witli a rufous band across them above, wholly rufous below; tail black 
tipped with while. Female and young like the male, but browner in tint 
