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Show 1871.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE BIRDS OF CAMEROONS. 607 A beautiful specimen, killed on the 10th of February, 1871. This is identical with the true T. purpuratus of Gaboon, and is not T. goffini, which takes its place on the Gold Coast. Fam. PICIDAE. 20. CAMPETHERA NIVOSA. Campethera nivosa (Sw.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17. "Cameroons Mountains, February 4th, 1871." One female sent, identical with examples in m y collection from Fantee. Order PASSERES. Fam. TlMALTIDAE. 21. ALETHE CASTANEA. Alethe castanea, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 43. "Cameroons Mountains, February 1st, 1871, and February 20th, 1871." The two specimens sent by Mr. Crossley are an adult and a young bird of this species. Compared with a bird from Gaboon in my collection, obtained by Du Chaillu, Mr. Crossley's older specimen is rather larger, but is apparently a little more adult. The species of Alethe may be characterized as follows:- Clavis specierum generis Alethes. a. capite s u m m o laste castaneo. a', cauda brunnea unicolori 1. castanea, Cass. V. rectricibus exterioribus ad apicem albis 2. maculicauda, Hartl. l>. capite cinerascente 3. castanonota, Sharpe. Fam. TURDIDAE. 22. TURDUS CROSSLEYI, sp. nov. (Plate XLVII.) T. supra olivaceo-brunneus, aurato lavatus, pileo uropygioque conspicue tinctis : collo postico et corpore subtus leete aurantiacis: abdomine medio et imo cum crisso pure albis : mento, genis et regione auriculari antica nigricantibus : tectricibus alarum saturate brunneis, minimis aurato lavatis, majoribus conspicue albo terminatis, fasciam duplicem alarem formantibus: rectricibus brunneis extus aurato lavatis, versus basin albis : cauda saturate brunnea vix aurato nit ent e: rostro nigro ; pedibus pallide flavidis: long. tot. 8*5, culm. 0*9, alee 3, caudce 29, tarsi 1*2. Head golden brown, tinged with orange on the hinder part; a little line of feathers on each side of the forehead, at the base of the bill, orange ; lores, fore part of the cheeks, and ear-coverts blackish; sides of the neck, and a collar encircling the same, orange ; back golden brown; least wing-coverts blackish, strongly washed with golden brown ; rest of the wing-coverts blackish brown, conspicuously |