PASSERES. 



0Ol,l)-VENTET) THRUSH. 



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Pycnonotus capensis (Linnaeus*). 



GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. 



Turdus cmrigaster\. 



Pycnonotus, KuldX- — Bill moderately long, somewhat decurved and laterally 

 compressed, nostrils basal, oval and placed in a groove, a few bristles at the 

 gape. Wings moderate and rounded, with the fourth, fifth and sixth quills 

 nearly equal and longest. Tail moderate and almost square. Tarsi stout, 

 generally covered in front with a single scale ; toes moderate, the lateral toes un- 

 equal, the hind toe rather long and strong. 



In the mouth of January, 1838, this South- African hircl was 

 shot at Mount Beresford, three miles and a half from Water- 



* Tardus capensis, Linniuus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. i. p. 295 (1766). 



f Not Turdus aurigaster, Vieillot. 



X Isis, 1826, p. 973. Prof. Agassiz (Nomenclator Zoologicus. Aves, p. 66) 

 quotes "Pycnonotus Kuhl Av. col. nom. syst. 1820"; but the reference is in- 

 correct, and the Editor cannot supply an earlier date for the genus than that 

 now given, when it was used by F, Uoie as of Kuhl's foundation. 



