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CRESCENT THRUSH. 

 (Turdus arcuatus.) 



Tu. rtifo-fuscus, corpora sitbtus superciliis lorisqite albis, cervice 



jugulo pectoreque rubentibus, genis lunulaque sub gula nigris. 

 Red-brown Thrush, with the body beneath, supercilia, and lores, 



white ; top of the neck, jugulum, and breast, reddish ; cheeks 



and crescent beneath the throat black. 

 Turdus arcuatus. Gmel. Sy&t. Nat. 1. 829. Lath. Ind. Om. 1. 



337. 36. 

 Crescent Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 3?. 34. 



THIS Thrush is in length eleven inches : its beak 

 is lead-coloured, with a pale tip : supercilia white : 

 cheeks black, passing in a crescent on the fore- 

 part of the neck; on the middle of the black 

 behind the eye a patch of loose white feathers : 

 upper part of the body reddish brown : chin and 

 lores white: hind parts of the neck and breast 

 reddish : abdomen reddish white : vent pure white : 

 tail rounded at the end and long, with a black 

 bar near the tip, and the tips white : legs lead co- 

 loured : claws white. Inhabits China. 



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