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A. importunus from the Cape to Natal, noomei in the north-eastern Trans- 
vaal, oleaginus at Delagoa Bay, hypoxanthus in the Lower Zambesi region, 
and insiilaris on the coast of East Africa near Zanzibar and on the island 
itself. Phyllastrephus milanjensis, recorded from Chirinda by Swynnerton 
(Ibis, 1907, p. 54), should be referred to the genus Arizelocichla. 
The genus Pychnonotus contains two genera, distinguished by the 
character of the eyelids, Pychnonotus, containing capensis and nigricans, 
having them wattled, and Loidorusa, containing layardi and tricolor, having 
them feathered. Loidorusa tricolor ngami (Ogilvie-Grant) {Ibis, 1912, 
p. 321) should be added to our list. It is absurd to make P. nigricans a 
subspecies of P. capensis as some writers have done, the two being quite 
distinct on the colour of the head and there being no intermediates. 
Turdinae 
Chaetops pychnopygius (Strickland and Sclater) differs from the typical 
species of the genus, notably in its much shorter legs, and softer feathers 
on the crown, and may be separated under the new generic name of 
Achaetops, of which it will be the monotype. 
Lieut. C. G. Finch-Davies has recently secured specimens of Aethocichla 
gymnogenys Hartlaub, south of the Cunene River (cf. Bull. S. Afr. Biol. Soc. 
(i), II. 40, 1918), and the species must therefore be added to our list. 
According to Richmond (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. liii. 627, 1917), Turdoides 
Cretschmarr, genotype T. leucocephalus Cretschm., is an earlier name for 
the genus commonly known as Crater opus Swainson, genotype C. rein- 
wardii] Cratopus Jardine, genotype C. bicolor, is also earlier than Cra- 
ter opus. Subgeneric rearrangement of Turdoides seems desirable. 
The African Thrushes seem never to have been properly understood 
and generically classified. The Kurrichaine Thrush has found its right place 
in Sharpe’s Handlist (v. 134, 1902), where it is placed under Psophocichla] 
but beyond this, considerable revision is necessary. Psophocichla has a 
very short tail, little more than half the length of the wing, and the coverts 
three-fourths of the length of the tail; the wing more ‘‘pointed” than in 
the other genera in South Africa, the first primary shorter than the primary 
coverts and the second primary the longest ; the bill rather long and slender, 
slightly broader than high at the base ; tarsi and feet stout, the outstretched 
feet in cabinet specimens reaching beyond the end of the tail. It inhabits 
open acacia country, and has the underparts of the body white, marked 
with elongate spots. Another genus is to be found in Turdus guttatus Vigors, 
which has the underparts of the body marked as in Psophocichla, but 
differs in that the tail is longer, the wing more rounded, the bill shorter 
and about as high as broad at the base ; this genus I name Pseudoturdus 'j 
gen. nov., type T. guttatus Vigors. It inhabits forested regions in the 
eastern tract, and the differences which can be observed in structure and 
softer tone of coloration may be due to this. It is probably allied to 
Psophocichla and both of these to Turdus viscivorus rather than the other 
species so markedly different in the colour of the underparts of the body. 
Richmond (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. 610, 1909) has identified the 
name of Geokichla St. Muller, with Turdus citrinus Latham as the genotype. 
“Turdus” gurneyi and its African allies agree fairly well with -this geno- 
type, except that citrinus differs in the sexes, and the name of Chamaetylas 
