234 BLUE-HEADED THRUSH. 



THE Chili Thrush is the size of a Blackbird : its 

 beak is black : the plumage entirely of a beautiful 

 glossy black : the tail long, and slightly wedged. 

 It is extremely abundant in Chili : it sings well, 

 and will imitate other birds : it feeds on seeds and 

 worms, and will attack other birds and pick out 

 their brains : its nest is made of twigs mixed with 

 dirt and lined with hair: it lays three blueish 

 white eggs. 



BLUE-HEADED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus cyanocephalus.) 



Tu. supra fuscus subtus Jlavescens, vertice saturate carufoo, rec- 



tricibus margine albo maculatis. 

 Thrush above fuscous, beneath yellowish, with the crown of the 



head dark blue ; the margin of the tail-feathers with white 



spots. 



Turdus cyanocephalus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. xliii. 17. 

 Blue-headed Thrush. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 185. 26. 



INHABITS New South Wales : it is the size of 

 the Song Thrush : its beak is blue, with a black 

 tip : the crown of the head is deep blue : the back, 

 wings, and tail, are brown : the under parts of the 

 body yellowish white : the sides sprinkled with 

 narrow black lines : quills dark brown, with white 

 tips : all the tail-feathers with triangular white 

 spots on their outer margins : legs blue. 



