Black bird, yellow legs & buffy head. 201 Turdus poliocephalus mareensis Layard and Tristram Range.- Maré Island Description.- More or less sooty black, with white or buffy feathers in the middle of the abdomen and on the vent. Habitat.- In the forest Collecting.- This is one of the most important birds of the group and a large series of adults must be collected. Not one museum in the world has adequate material of this form and this makes it very difficult to describe the thrushes of the northern New Hebrides (etc.) which are very similar. Immatures are far less interesting to us than adults, and females less than males. Maré WAH-SAR-SAI