TURDUS OBSCURUS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXXVI. — Male. 
T. capite, dorso, guld, gutture, pectore, abdominisque lateribus griseo-brunneis; abdomine medio humerisque 
intern^ rubro-aurantiis ; caud* tectricibus inferioribus griseo-brunneis, singulis lined longitudinali 
alba variegatis ; alarum tectricibus minoribus, remigium tectricibus, remigibus, rectricibusque 
brunneis ; rostro pedibusque flavis ; ocnlis brunneis. 
Longitddo corporis cum capite, 5 unc ; caudse, 4 -}, unc. 
Merula obscura, Smith. — App. to Kop. of Exped. p. 45, June, 1836. 
Colour. — The upper parts of the head, neck and body, together with the 
chin, throat, breast, and sides of belly, intermediate between broccoli and 
clove-brown (greyish brown), — the colour of the four last named regions 
lightest. Lesser wing coverts, primary and secondary quill coverts, quill- 
feathers, and tail umber-brown, glossed with broccoli-brown, the tail darkest. 
Belly reddish orange, deadened with a tint of greyish-brown ; inner surface 
of wings towards shoulders bright reddish orange ; under tail-coverts greyish- 
brown, each feather with a dirty whitish stripe in the course of the shaft, and 
several of them are tipped with the same colour. Bill, legs and claws, 
yellow. Eyes dark brown. 
Form, &c. — Typical. Bill rather slender, and strongly compressed, the 
upper mandible considerably longer than the lower, and flattened towards the 
point; angles of mouth sparingly furnished with short bristles. Wings 
moderately long, and when folded reach to the commencement of the last 
half of the tail; the fourth and fifth quill feathers equal and longest, the 
third and sixth slightly shorter, the second about half an inch shorter than 
the third, the first rudimentary, and scarcely more than an inch in length. 
Tail slightly rounded at the point. Tarsi and toes robust, the former with 
