2. TUBDUs. 223 



paler ; no trace of eye-stripe ; wings and tail brown ; wing-coverts, 

 innermost secondaries, and outside webs of quills and tail-feathers 

 the same colour as the back. Breast pale brown, shading into 

 nearly white on the chin and upper throat, and into rich chestnut 

 on the flanks, which becomes somewhat paler on the belly and under 

 tail-coverts ; the chin and throat, and frequently the breast, have 

 somewhat obscurely defined longitudinal streaks of darkish brown ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts rich chestnut ; inner margin of 

 quills pale chestnut-brown. Bill dark brown above, brown below. 

 Wing with the fourth and fifth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary between the seventh and eighth, bastard primary 

 0'85 to I'l inch. Legs, feet, and claws brown. Length of wing 

 4-6 to 4-25 inches, tail 4-1 to 3-8, culmen 0-96 to 0-91, tarsus 1-4 

 to 1-25. 



Examples from Buenos Ayres are more sufi'used with olive on 

 the upper parts. 



The female does not differ from the male. Birds of the year and 

 younrj in first plumage possess all the characteristic markings of the 

 same stages of plumage of allied species. 



The Chestnut-bellied Thrush appears to be confined to the central 

 and eastern portions of South America, having been found from Bahia 

 to Buenos Ayres, and in the interior of Bolivia. 

 a, b. Ad. sk. Chili [_?y Zoological Society. 



c. Ad. sk. Pimta Lara, Buenos Henry Dm-nford, Esq. [C.]. 



Ayres, May 25, 1876. 



d. $ ad. sk. Uruguav, Sept. 1877. Alan Peel, Esq. [CI 

 e,/. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil. H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 

 y. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



h. Ad. st. South America. 



i. Ad. St. South America. J. Gould, Eaq. 



k. Ad. sk. Interior of Bolivia {Brydyes). Eyton Coll. 



38. Turdns magellanicus. (Plate XIV.) 



Tardus mogellanicus, Kinq, P. Z. S. 1f<'30, p. 14; Grrii/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 219 (1847); B/>. Comp. i. p. 272 (18o0,^j>a;*';n); Cab. 3Im. 



Hi'in. i. p. 3 (l.SoO): Lic/it. Kom. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol. p. 26 



(1854); Durnford, Ibia, 1878, p. 392. 



Tiirdus falklancliiB, Quoy et Gaim., <ipud D'Orbign. Voy. Amer. 



merid. Ois. p. 202 (circ. 1840). 



Tardus falklandieus, Quoi/ et Gaim., apnd Gould, Darwin^s Voy. 



Beuyle, Bird.<, p. 59 (\SA\, parti m) ; apiid Sclater, P. Z. .5.1859, 



p. 330 {/>firtiiii) ; apiid Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 4 (1862. partim) ; 



apud Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 257.no. 374(5(1869, partim), apud 



Sclater ^- Salriti, Xomencl. Ar. Xeotr. p. 2 {187S, partim). 



Merula falklandica (Quoy et Gaim.), apud Cassin, U.S. Exjd. Exp., 



3Iamm. 4' Orn. p. 157 (1858). 



In the adult male the head and ear-covcrts are dark brown, nearly 



black, the feathers on the forehead with paler edges : lores black ; 



no trace of eye-stripe ; rest of upper parts brown, shading into dull 



slate-grey on the rump ; primaries, primary-coverts, and tail dark 



brown ; secondaries broadly edged with paler brown on the outer 



webs ; entire outer webs of innermost secondaries ohve-brown. 



Chin and upper throat greyish white, each feather with a long fan- 



