242 MINUTE THRUSH. 



THIS is less than the Blackbird : its beak is yel- 

 lowish white : the top of the head and hind part 

 of the neck dirty white : the throat, fore-part of 

 the neck, back, wings, and tail, deep grey : breast, 

 belly, thighs, and vent, pale reddish grey : legs 

 yellowish. This is a native of the Coromandel 

 coast : it feeds on insects. 



MINUTE THRUSH. 

 (Turclus minutus.) 



Tu. supra Jusco^ferrugineus, subtus Jerrugineo-cinereus, gula al- 

 bida, alls et cauda nigrojerrugineoqiie notatis. 



Thrush above brown rust-coloured ; beneath rusty ash, with the 

 throat white ; the wings and tail spotted with black and fer- 

 ruginous. 



Turdus minutus. Mus.Carls.far.S.pLGS. Lath. Ltd. Orn. 

 1.363. 136. 



Minute Thrush. Lath. Syn. Sup. If. 181. 10. 



ONE of the smallest birds of the genus, measur- 

 ing only four inches in length : its beak is brown : 

 the prevailing colour of the plumage brownish 

 rust-coloured : two or three of the primaries 

 dusky, and others black, with the middle part fer- 

 ruginous : some of the secondaries with their tips 

 of that colour, and many of them wholly so : the 

 under parts of the body ferruginous ash : the 

 chin whitish : tail ferruginous, the four middle 

 feathers, which are black, excepted. Native place 

 unknown. 



