230 WHITE-TAILED THRUSH. 



THIS is the size of the Blackbird : its beak is 

 strong and black : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage is greenish glossy black, the primary 

 quills, which are rufous, excepted : the three first 

 quills have brown and the rest black tips : the 

 legs are brown : the length of the bird is eleven 

 inches. It inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



WHITE-TAILED THRUSH. 

 ( Turdus leucurus.) 



Tu. niger, uropygio fomoribus caudaque a basi Jere ad apicem 



albis. 

 Black Thrush, with the rump, thighs, and tail, from the base 



nearly towards the tip, white. 

 Turdus leucurus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 820. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 344. 58. 

 White-tailed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 4. pi. 38. 



THIS species is a native of Spain: it is less than 

 the Blackbird : length eight inches : beak lead- 

 coloured: prevailing colour of the plumage black: 

 rump, thighs, and tail, white, the tips of the fea- 

 thers of the latter excepted, which are black for 

 about half an inch, and the two middle ones for 

 about an inch and a half: legs and claws yellowish. 



