TURDUS LIBONYANA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate XXXVIII. — Male. 
T. supra valdk flavo-griseus, yertice brunneo-tincto ; alarum tectricibus minoribus, remigium tectricibus, 
pogoniisque externis brunneo-griseis, priurlbus aurantio-lavatis ; remigibus, intern^ versus basin 
pallid^ aurantiis ; gutture flavo-albo, utrinque fascia nigro-brunneo-maculata marginato ; pectore 
flavo-griseo pallid^ aurantio tincto; abdominis lateribus aurantiis, medio crissoque albis; oculis 
brunneis ; rostro pedibusque flavis. 
Loxgitddo, 9 unc. 
Merula Libonyana, Smith, Rep. of Exped. App. page 45. June, 1836. 
Colour. — Above deep yellowish grey, the top of the head strongly shaded 
with brownish red. Shoulders, lesser wing coverts, quill coverts, and outer 
vanes of quill feathers brownish grey ; the lesser coverts, and the secondary 
quill coverts faintly tinted with pale buff orange, and the latter distinctly 
edged with the same colour ; inner vanes of quill feathers brownish red, 
broadly margined internally towards the base with pale buff-orange. The 
two middle feathers of the tail and the outer vanes of the rest deep broccoli- 
brown, the inner vanes brownish red, distinctly tipped and faintly margined 
with white ; in certain lights all the feathers appear crossed by a great 
number of bars of a darker tinge than the ground colour. Throat white 
tinned with ochre-yellow, and margined on each side by a series of small 
oval spots of a blackish brown colour, and so arranged as to form two longi- 
tudinal bands, one extending from each side of the base of lower mandible. 
Breast light yellowish gray, faintly tinged with pale Dutch-orange ; sides of 
belly and inner surface of shoulders bright Dutch-orange ; middle of belly, 
vent and under tail coverts white, many of the latter feathers brown towards 
their base. Eyes dark brown, bill, feet, and claws, yellow, the latter clouded 
with brown. 
Form, &c.— Typical. Bill nearly straight, the culmen slightly arched 
towards the base, strongly towards the point; edges of under mandible in- 
flected and received within those of the upper. Wings moderately long, 
