264 ASH-RUMPED THRUSH. 



is in length eight inches : the beak is black : the 

 entire plumage on the upper parts of the body is 

 black, of which colour the legs are : all the under 

 parts are white. The White-browed Thrush of 

 Latham appears to be the opposite sex of this 

 bird, from which it only differs in having the eye- 

 brow, and a spot on the lower wing-coverts, white. 



ASH-RUMPED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Orientalis.) 



Tu. niger, subtus albus, uropygio cinereo, fascia per oculos nigra, 



rectricibus nigris, tribus extimis apice albis. 

 Black Thrush, beneath white, with the rump ash-coloured; 



stripe through the eyes black ; tail-feathers black, the three 



outer ones with white tips. 

 Turdus orientalis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 821. Lath. Ind. Orn, 



1.355. 104. 



Merula indica. Briss. 3. 248. \Q. t. 31. f. 3. 

 Merle des Indes. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 397. Buf. PI- Enl. 



273./. 2. 

 Ash-rumped Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 74-97- 



THIS Thrush is in length six inches and a half: 

 the beak, upper parts of the head and body, streak 

 from the beak through the eyes, and the neck, 

 black : the lower parts of the back and rump ci- 

 nereous : wing-coverts dusky chesnut ; the greater 

 ones edged with white : quills dusky ; the prima- 

 ries with white bars to their inner webs, and the 



