. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 15. ALETHE. 57 15. ALETHE. Type. Aletlie, Cass. Proc. Fhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 43 A. castanea. Range. Confined to Western Foot of Alrthe castanea. Key to the Species, a. No streaks on throat. a'. CroTvn tawny ; ear-coverts and eyebrow grey. a". No white" tips to tail-feathers castanea, p. 57. b". Outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with •white diademata, p. 58. h'. Crown gri-ey like sides of head and contrasting with chestnut back castanotwta, p. 59. I. Throat white, streaked with black striaticolUs, p. 59. 1. Alethe castanea
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 15. ALETHE. 57 15. ALETHE. Type. Aletlie, Cass. Proc. Fhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 43 A. castanea. Range. Confined to Western Foot of Alrthe castanea. Key to the Species, a. No streaks on throat. a'. CroTvn tawny ; ear-coverts and eyebrow grey. a". No white" tips to tail-feathers castanea, p. 57. b". Outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with •white diademata, p. 58. h'. Crown gri-ey like sides of head and contrasting with chestnut back castanotwta, p. 59. I. Throat white, streaked with black striaticolUs, p. 59. 1. Alethe castanea. Napothera castanea, Cass. Pi-oc. Fhilad. Acad. 1856, p. 158 ; Haiti. Orn. Westafr. p. 73 (1857) ; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 29, 1877, p. 24. Alethe castanea, Cass. Proc. Philad. , p. 43; Earth J. f. O. 1861, p. 162 ; BuChaiUu, Eqnat. Afr. p. 273 (1861); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 319, no. 4781 (1869); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 607. Adult. General colour above light chestnut, a little clearer on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back; primary-coverts and primaries dusky brown, externally margined with chestnut, the inner secondaries almost entirely chestnut; tail-feathers dark brown, slightly edged with chestnut; crown of head chestnut, rather duller than the back, and bright orange-rufous in the centre of the crown ; base of forehead dusky ; lores, feathers round the eye, eyebrow, sides of face, and ear-coverts ashy grey ; checks also light ashy grey ; remainder of under surface of body pure white, with faint remains of narrow ashy margins to the feathers of the throat and fore neck ; the sides of the breast and flanks ashy grey : thighs light ashy; under wing-coverts and axil- laries white, with the edge of the wing grey ; quills light ashy brown below, paler ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-75, tail 3, tarsus 1. The bird described is from the Camaroons. The adult specimen from Gaboo
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