YELLOW-BREASTED THRUSH. 237 



L'Ourovang, ou Merle cendre de Madagascar. Buff. Hut. Xat. 



Ois. 3. 380. Buff. PI. Enl. 55?. f. 2. 

 Cinereous Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 64. 76. 



CALLED Ourovang at Madagascar, where it is 

 found : it is in length eight inches and a half: the 

 beak is tipped with brown : the crown of the head 

 inclines to greenish black : the prevailing colour 

 of the plumage is ash-colour : the greater wing- 

 coverts, quills, and tail, are dark ash-colour : the 

 head, neck, breast, upper parts of the body, and 

 lesser wing-coverts, with an olive green tinge : the 

 belly and vent yellowish : legs brown. 



YELLOW-BREASTED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus pectoralis.) 



Tu.fuscus, collo inferiore pectoreque rufescente-Jla-ois. 



Brown Thrush, with the neck beneath and breast of a reddish 



yellow. 



Turdus pectoralis. Lath.Ind. Orn. 1. 357. 112. 

 Le petit Merle brun 4 gorge rousse de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. 3. 4O3.Bitff: PI. Enl. 644. f. 2. 

 Yellow-breasted Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 78. 105. 



THIS is in length five inches : its beak is of a 

 dusky cinereous : the chin, throat, and breast, 

 rufous yellow : the prevailing colour of the 

 plumage above brown, with a paler mixture on 

 the back : the legs greenish yellow. Inhabits 

 Cayenne. 



