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PALM THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Palmarum.) 



Tu. viridi-olivaceus, subtus subcinereus, sincipite pileo genisque 



nigris maculis utrinque tribus albis. 

 Olive-green Thrush, beneath pale ash ; with the forehead, crown 



of the head, and cheeks, black, with three white spots. 

 Turdus palmarum. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 295. 19. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 824. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 356. \QS.-Vicil. Ols. de VAmcr. 



Sept. 2. 16. 



Le Palrniste. Briss. Orn. 2. 301. 47.pl. 2g.J'. 1. 

 Le Merle Palrniste. Vicil. Ois. dc VAmcr. Sept. 2. l6.pl. 6g. 



70. young. 

 Palm Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 76. 101. 



THIS beautiful species is a native of Cayenne, 

 St. Domingo, and Surinam : the crown and back 

 parts of the head are black, with three white stripes, 

 one on the forehead, another above the eye, and 

 the third at the bottom of the black below : the 

 upper parts of the neck brown : the back, rump, 

 scapulars, wing and tail-coverts, of a beautiful olive 

 green, with which colour the edges of the quills 

 and outer webs of the tail-feathers are bordered : 

 the throat and lower part of the neck white, get- 

 ting gradually darkened to grey towards the vent : 

 all but the two middle tail-feathers brown on the 

 inner webs : length six inches and a half: beak 

 and legs black : female differs in having the back 

 part of the neck black, and the throat and under 

 parts of the body greyish : the young bird has the 



