274 ROSE-COLOURED THRUSH. 



dusky black, a little bent at the tip : the head, 

 neck, upper parts of the back, lesser wing-coverts, 

 prime and second quills, and two middle tail-fea- 

 thers, black : the under parts of the body, from 

 the throat, the lower part of the back, the middle 

 wing-coverts, and the rest of the tail-feathers, a 

 rich deep scarlet : there are also three spots of 

 the same near the tips of three of the second 

 quills : the tail is rounded in shape : the legs 

 black. Inhabits India." 



ROSE-COLOURED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus roseus.) 



Tu. subincarnatus, capite alls caudaque nigris, occipite cristato. 

 Flesh-coloured Thrush, with the head, wings, and tail, black ; 



hind head crested. 

 Turdus roseus. Lin. Syst. Nat. ]. 2Q4. 15. Lin. Faun. Suec. 



ZlQ.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Bly^Lath. 2nd. Orn. 1. 344. 69. 

 Turdus Seleucis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 837. 

 Merula rosea. Briss. 2. 250. 20. 

 Merle couleur de rose. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 3. 348. f. 22. 



Buff". Pl,Enl.25l. 

 Rose-coloured Thrush. Pen. Brit. Zool. App. 5. t. 5. Pen. 



Arct. Zool. 2. 344. G. Letuin. Brit. Birds. 2. 64. Edwards. 



1. 20. Bewick. Eril. Birds. 1. 91. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 50. 



Lath. Syn. Sup. 142. Mont. Brit. Birds. 2. Mont. Sup. 



Shaw. Nat. Misc. 6. 231. 



THIS elegant species of Thrush is rather less 

 than the Blackbird : length near eight inches : 



