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tail grey brown, with the outer feathers tipped 

 with white : all the rest of the bird yellowish ash- 

 colour. 



REED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus arundinaceus.) 



ln.fusco-ferrugineuSy subtus albido-testaceus, re migibus fuscis 



apice nifescentibus. 

 Ferruginous-brown Thrush, beneath whitish testaceous, with the 



quills fuscous, tipped with reddish. 

 Turdus arundinaceus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 296. 25.Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 834. Briss. 2. 21Q. 6. t. 22. f. 1. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



334. 28. 

 La Rousserolle. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 2Q3. t. \9.Buff. PI. 



Enl. 513. 

 Reed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 32. 28. Lath. Syii. Sup. 141. 



IN length seven inches : the upper mandible of 

 the beak brown ; the under whitish : the chin 

 nearly white : the general colour of the plumage 

 above rufous brown : the quills brown, with red- 

 dish brown margins : the tail similar to the back : 

 the under parts of the body dirty white : legs 

 grey. There is a variety which differs principally 

 in having the upper parts of the body testaceous 

 brown : the rump and tail rufous, with all but the 

 two middle feathers of the latter with black bars 

 near the tip: the three outer ones are tipped with 

 white, and the fourth on the inner web only. 



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