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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
T have carefully examined this series and cannot find, one 
true T. cabanisi. The amount of grey on the flanks seems 
very variable. 
[This Thrush was commonly noticed in the woods and 
forests of the Cape Peninsula, the Knysna district, 
Zululand, and Natal, and the South-Eastern and North- 
Eastern Transvaal. 
It is a thrush of the woods and forests, where it is found 
solitary or in pairs ; and although I have never taken the 
eggs, I secured many young birds and saw deserted old. 
nests. It has a soft sighing call-note like our European 
Thrush, but no song. It is a fearless confiding bird, and 
spends much of its time amongst the under-wood. 
The soft parrs are :— Irides brown ; bill, legs and toes 
horny yellow; base of upper mandible horn-brown. 
In the young the bill is brownish, with the gape yellowish, 
and the legs and toes livid, brown.] 
298. Turdus libonianus. 
F. Coguno, Aug., Sept. (2) ; Beira, Nov. Dec. (3) ; 
Tambarara, July (1). 
I cannot distinguish examples of this species from 
Bustenburg (near the type locality) from those from Nyasa- 
land or from the present series. I am not, therefore, inclined 
to uphold NeumamPs subspecies T. libonianus tropicalis , to 
which, if distinct, Mr. GranPs birds should be referred. 
A young bird, labelled Beira, Nov. 25, with the tail full- 
grown, shews a few fulvous shaft-streaks on the wflng-coverts, 
while the general tone of colour is more olive and less 
silvery ; below, the breast is spotted with black ; the bill is 
black. 
[I have only seen this Thrush in the Portuguese country, 
where, however, it was not common. It frequents both 
the forests and the more patchy country, is essentially 
thrush-like in habits and call, and spends much of its time 
on the ground searching for food. In the Inhambane district 
I found it feeding on pollen in company with Sunbirds and 
Bulbuls. 
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