260 MADAGASCAR THRUSH. 



and primary wing quills, and rump, margined with 

 pale chesnut: tail rounded at the tip, and deep 

 cinereous ; its coverts pale chesnut : the legs are 

 black. 



MADAGASCAR THRUSH. 

 (Turdus madagascariensis.) 



Tu. fu&cus, subtus albus, pectore lateribusque rufescentibiis^ ma- 

 cula alarum riifo-aurea, rectricibus duobus intermediis latera- 

 liumque marginibus viridi-auratis, extimis margine exteriore 

 albis. 



Brown Thrush, beneath white, with the breast and sides reddish; 

 a reddish gold spot on the wings; the two middle tail-fea- 

 thers, and the edges of the outer ones, green gold ; the 

 outermost one with the exterior margin white. 



Turdus madagascariensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 823. Lath. 

 2nd. Orn. 1.352-94. 



Merula madagascariensis. Briss. 2; 2JM. 33. t. 15. f. 1. 



Le Tauomb6. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 386.Biif. PL Enl. 



557. f- 1. 

 Madagascar Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 68. 86; 



BEAK black : head, neck, back, and scapulars, 

 brown: quills dusky; from the second to the 

 sixth part white, part violet, on the outer webs : 

 the secondaries black, mixed with green and 

 violet, and some of the inner ones glossed with 

 gilded rufous : rump green brown : breast and 

 sides rufous brown : belly, thighs, and vent, white : 

 the two middle tail-feathers green gold ; the rest 

 the same, with the inner margins dusky : the out- 

 most feathers white on the outer edge j the two 



