TURDUS LIBONYANA. 
rounded, and when folded cover about the first half of the tail ; first quill 
rudimentary, the third, fourth, and fifth equal and longest, the second and 
sixth slightly shorter than the fifth. Tail slightly forked, and the two outer- 
most feathers rather shorter than the rest. Tarsi moderately strong, distinctly 
scutellated anteriorly near to the toes, elsewhere entire ; toes robust, the 
outer slightly longer than the inner one ; all armed with curved and pointed 
claws, the claw of the hinder toe both longest and strongest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to 
the tip of the tail 9 0 
Length of the tail 4 0 
of the bill from the angle of 
the mouth 1 1 
Length of the wings when folded 
of the tarsus 
of the middle toe 
of the outer toe 
of the hinder toe 
Inches. Lines. 
4 6 
1 2t 
0 9 
0 6 
0 4 ,^ 
The colours of the female are not quite so bright as those of the male, par- 
ticularly those of the belly, the inner surfaces of the shoulders and the internal 
edges of the wing feathers. 
The first specimens of this thrush were procured in the neighbourhood of Kurichane. The 
thickets which occur upon the banks of rivers form its favourite habitat, and it is usually 
found early in the mornings actively engaged under these thickets in seeking its food, which 
it often acquires by displacing the rubbish with which the ground in such situations is commonly 
covered. When disturbed while so occupied it generally takes wing and flies to the spots most 
densely supplied with foliage, in which it endeavours to conceal itself. In all its habits it 
closely resembles Le Griverou of Le Vaillant # ( Turdus olivaceus), and several individuals 
were passed in the first instance without notice under an idea that they were of the last named 
species. When one was killed, however, the differences were readily detected : the throat was 
found to want the spots which exist in Turdus olivaceus, and the colours generally to be different, 
though distributed nearly according to the same pattern. 
* Osieaux d’Afrique, plate 98. 
