HUDSONIAN THRUSH. 



BEAK dusky, tinged with red : irides bright yel- 

 low: hind part of the neck, hack, and rump, ash- 

 coloured grey; the two latter palest : wing-coverts 

 and lesser quills copper green, glossed with violet: 

 primary and secondary quills hlack : wing-coverts 

 with a fe\v white spots : head and neck white : the 

 feathers long and narrow : hreast and belly similar 

 to the back : tail like the wing-coverts, with its 

 under-coverts white: legs yellow: female with 

 the head grey, and the gloss on the wings less 

 brilliant. Inhabits China. 



HUDSONIAN THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Huclsonicus.) 



Tti. c&ruleo-cineretis, vert ice nuclia tectricibns alarum uropygio- 



que pallide-castaneo marginatis, catida cinerea rotundata. 

 Ash-coloured blue Thrush, with the crown, nape, wing-coverts, 



and rump, margined with pale chesnut ; the tail rounded and 



ash-coloured. 

 Turdus hudsonicus. Gmel. Syst. Nut. 1. 818. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 362. 131. Vieil. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 2. 17. 

 Le Merle blueatre. VielL Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 2. 17 

 Hudsonian Thrush. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 2OJ. Lath. Sup. 



143. 124. 



INHABITS Hudson's Bay. Length about seven 

 inches and a half: beak black : prevailing colour 

 of the plumage deep blueish ash, with the feathers 

 of the crown of the head, the nape, wing-coverts, 



