302 LONG-BILLED THRUSH. 



yellow olive : middle of the former whitish : tail 

 brown, with two transverse darker bands. In- 

 habits the Isle of Bourbon. 



LONG-BILLED THRUSH. 

 (Turdus longirostris.) 



Tu.fusco-virescens, subtus jlavus, superciliis rectricibusque ex fa 



flavescentibus. 

 Greenish-brown Thrush, beneath yellow ; supefcilia and edges 



of the tail-feathers yellowish. 

 Turdus longirostris. Gmel. Syst. Nut. 1. 823. Lath.Ind. Orn. 



1. 352. 92. 

 Long-billed Thrush. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 67. 84. 



THE beak of this species is very long in pro- 

 portion to the size of the bird, being above an 

 inch and a half in length, and of a brownish 

 ftesh-colour : the feathers on the head are short 

 and pointed : the supercilia are pale yellowish : 

 the upper parts of the body are pale olive brown : 

 the wing-coverts and quills margined with pale 

 yellow: the rump yellowish: all the under parts 

 of the body pale yellow: the tail rounded; the 

 two middle feathers brown, with pale tips j the 

 others dusky yellow, with pale shafts : legs dusky 

 flesh-colour : some specimens vary in having more 

 -pale buff on the wing-coverts, and in being mot- 

 tled with dusky and buff. It inhabits the isknds 

 of Eimeo and New York. 



