tail-coverts, the latter with concealed dusky bases, but with scarcely any evidence of dusky lateral
margins; sides of body bright o r a n g e - r u f o u s ; thighs pale ashy; under wmg-coverts a n d axillanes
bright orange-buff, the coverts round the bend of the wing ashy; quills dull ashy below, with a slight
shade of ashy-buff along the inner webs.' Total'length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-7, tail 3'35,
tursus 1*2,
A female specimen from Matto Grosso, described by Prof. J. A. Allen, is said to be much
browner than the male, the head being nearly uniform with the back, and with the throat-markings
brownish instead of deep black.
The nestling is al^o described by Prof. A l l e n T h e half-fledged bird-has the upper surface
much darker than in the adult, with the scapulars and interscapulars obscurely tipped with blackish,
and with conspicuous shaft-stripes of pale chestnut; wing-covevts also with shaft-stripes of the same
colour. Below blotched with broad cross-bars of blackish, the breast and sides pale yellowish-brown,
the middle of the abdomen white.”
The description is taken from a specimen in the British Museum, and the figures on the Plate
are drawn from a bird from S.E. Brazil in the Seebohm Collection. P*. S-J
TTJBDUS GYMNOPHTHALMUS, Cab.
BARE-EYED THRESH.
Turdus gymnopMhalmus, Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 665 Salv. Expt.
Om. p. 151, pi. lxxri- (1869); Seebohm, Cat. Birds Bnt. Mus. v. p. 212 (1881).
Turdus nudigmis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 4.
Tardus gymnopsis, Temm. MS., Bp. Consp. i. p. 272 (1850).
Turdus albiventris (nec Spix), Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 136.
Turdus caribbceus, Lawr. Ann. New York Acad. S c i.||p . 160 (1878).
Turdus qymnogenys, Scl. & Salv. Ibis,.1879, p. 357. T. i r) I T H
Merula gyrmophthalma, Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 473 (1883); Cory, List B. West Indies,
p. 5 (1885).
Merula caribbm, Cory, Ibis, 1886, p. 472.
T. plagit gulari alba n u lla : remigibus infra obscurb brunneis, vix in tis cmerascenti-fulvo adumbrutis : pectore
medio abdomineque albis: subalaribus et axiUaribus dilute aurantiaco-fulvis: regione ophthalruici uudi,
flaviL
T his Thrush is easily recognized by the bare yellow space round the eye. This character, however,
varies in individuals, and is much more extensive in some specimens than in others, and appears to
me to be more developed in the breeding-plumage. . ,
It is a bird of wide range in South America, and was first described from British Guiana by
Prof. Cabanis (Schomb. Reis; Brit. Guian. iii. p. 665), who also records it from Cayenne from
specimens in the Berlin Museum. Dr. Sclater has also received it from Surinam (P. Z. b. lbo ,
P‘ 3 Whitely obtained several specimens at Quonga, in British Guiana, in October and November,
and again on Roraima at 3500 feet id the same months (Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 198).
Dyson met with the species near Caracas in Venezuela (spec, in Mus. Bnt.), and Prof. Cabanis
also notices it from the same locality (I. s. c.). A specimen obtained by Hanke near San Esteban
is in the Sclater Collection. From Caracas came also the type of Lafresnaye s Turdm nudigems
(Rev Zool 1848, p. 4). In Trinidad it is reported as a common resident by Leotaud (Ois. Irimd.
p. 201), by Mr. E. Cavendish Taylor'(Ibis, 1864, p. 80), and by Mr. Frank M. Chapman (Bull. Amer.
Mus. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 22). . H
The species is recorded from Tobago by Dr. Sclater, having been obtained there by Kirk
(P. Z. S. 1859, p. 329), and there is a specimen from this island in the Seebohm Collection. It also
occurs on St. Vincent and Grenada, examples from both of these islauds being in the Salvm-Godman
Collectiou. , 7
The late Mr. G. N. Lawrence separated the Bare-eyed Thrush from Grenada as Turdus canbbams.
He gives the following note in the ‘ Proceedings ’ of the E.S. National Museum (ix. p 610)
“ This is considered by Messrs. Sclater..and Salvin not to differ from T. gymnopMhalmus.
I have three specimens of the latter bird, one of them presented to me by Mr. Seebohm.
These are smaller, in their dimensions than the bird from Grenada, which has a perceptibly
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