BROWN-CROWNED THRUSH. 297 



LENGTH ten inches : beak and legs brown: head, 

 hind parts of the neck, and back, blueish black : 

 wings and tail brown: chin and all the under parts 

 of the body white : feeds on insects. Called Bana- 

 in New South Wales. 



BROWN-CROWNED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus tenebrosus.) 



TL T . dorso alls gulaque nigris, corpore subtus albido t verticcftuco. 

 Thrush with the back, wings, and tail, black ; the body beneath 



whitish ; the crown brown. 



Turdus tenebrosus. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. xlii. 12. 

 Brown-crowned Thrush. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 184. 21. 



NOT uncommon at Port Jackson, in New South 

 Wales : length about six inches : beak pale blue : 

 crown of the head and sides of the body brown : 

 back and wings black ; the edges of the quills 

 white : chin black ; all the rest of the under parts 

 white : legs black. 



