TURDUS STREPITANS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXXVII. — Male. 
T. sordid^ griseus ; fronte verticeque fortiter, nucha, cervice, interscapularibus, scapularibus, humerisque 
leviter brunneo-tinctis ; subtus albus, hie illic, ocbreo-tinctus ; cervicis lateribus, pectore, abdomineque 
maculis pyriformibus notatis ; capitis lateribus albis ocbrco-tinctis et fasciis tribus yariatis interne 
conjunctis. Oculis rubro-brunneis. Mandibula superioro, inferioris apice, unguibusque livido-brun- 
neis ; mandibula inferiore, pedibusque flavis. Cauda breve leviter bifurcata. 
Longitudo unc. 
Mertjla Letsitsiktjpa, Smith, Eep. of Exped. App. p. 46. June, 1836. 
Colour. — Front and top of head brownish grey; occiput, upper aspect of 
neck, interscapulars, scapulars and shoulders deep yellowish grey, faintly 
shaded with brown ; back, rump, and upper tail coverts dirty ash-grey. Un- 
der parts white, tinted in places with ochre-yellow, and the sides of the neck, 
the whole of the breast, the flanks and the belly are variegated with blackish 
brown pyriform spots, one on each feather, the large end reaching nearly to 
its point. Sides of the head white, slightly tinted with ochre-yellow, and 
each is variegated below the eyes with three blackish brown bands; the an- 
teriormost proceeds from the base of the lower mandible, the second from the 
middle of the under eyelid, and the third from the outer angle of the eye, the 
first extends nearly horizontally, and the two others obliquely downwards and 
backwards till they unite with the horizontal one. Primary wing coverts and 
primary quill feathers deep brownish red, the latter tipped and edged exter- 
nally with yellowish white ; the first two-thirds at least of the inner vanes of 
these feathers are of a clear buff-colour, darkest towards the shafts ; the se- 
condary wing coverts, and the secondary and tertiary quill feathers dark 
greyish brown, the outer vanes lightest, all margined externally and tipped 
with dirty white. Eyes reddish brown ; upper mandible and tip of lower 
inferiorly as well as the claws liver-brown ; lower mandible elsewhere and the 
cutting edge of upper pale saffron-yellow. Feet and insides of bill deep 
straw-yellow. 
Form, &c.~ Figure robust and rather short. Bill long, and moderately 
strong ; the upper mandible broad and slightly depressed towards the base, 
