GLOSSY THRUSH. 247 



Le Merle vert d* Angola. Buff. PL Enl. aGl.Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 3. 372. 



Blue and green Daw. Edwards. 320. 

 Shining Thrush. Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 56. OO. A. 



THIS most splendid bird is generally admitted 

 to be distinct from the Shining Thrush, than which 

 it is less abundant. It inhabits the same places 

 as that species : the upper parts of the head, neck, 

 body, and tail, are of a shining olive green, with a 

 tinge of blue on the back : \vings sprinkled with 

 dark black spots : throat blue : fore-part of the 

 neck blue green : breast, belly, thighs, and feathers 

 covering the ears, violet : vent olive yellow : legs 

 black. 



GLOSSY THRUSH. 

 (Turdus geneus.) 



Tu. riridis nitens, capite nigro-czneo, abdomine cupreo, uropygio 

 rectricibusque duabus intermediis purpurco splendent ibus, cmtda 

 longissima cuneiforrni. 



Shining green Thrush, with the head of a brassy black ; abdo- 

 men coppery ; rump and two middle tail-feathers most splen- 

 did purple ; tail long and wedge-shaped. 



Turdus aeneus. Gmel. Syst. Not. 1. 818. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 

 347. 67. 



Merula viridis longicauda senegalensis. Briss. 2. 313. 54. t. 31. 



#1. 



Merle a longue queue du Senegal. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois, 3. 36o. 



Buff. PL Enl. 220. 

 Glossy Thrush. Lath, Gen, Syn. 3. 51. 6L 



