284 WHITE-BACKED THRUSH. 



LENGTH ten inches : beak, eye lids, and hides, 

 red : head and upper parts of the body deep cine- 

 reous : quills blackish, edged with grey: throat 

 white, spotted with black : all the rest of the 

 under parts ash-coloured, but the colour towards 

 the vent verges to white : between the beak and 

 eye a spot of black : tail wedge-shaped ; the four 

 outer feathers on each side tipped with white : 

 legs red : female much smaller than the male, 

 similar in plumage, but rather duller in colour. 

 Inhabits various parts of North America, parti- 

 cularly Carolina. 



WHITE-BACKED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus Alapi.) 



Tu. Juscus subtus cinereus, collo inferiore pectorequc nigris, tec- 

 tricibus alarum albo punctat is, dor so macula alba. 



Brown Thrush, beneath ash-coloured, with the lower part of the 

 neck and breast black, the wing-coverts spotted with white, 

 and the back with a white patch. 



Turdus Alapi. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 826. Lath. Ind. Orn. J. 



359. 119- 

 L' Alapi de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 4Q5.Btiff. PI. 



Enl. 701. f. 2. 

 White-backed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 82. 112. 



A LITTLE larger than the Buff- winged Thrush : 

 length six inches: the beak dusky: the throat, 

 fore-part of the neck, and breast, black: the up- 



