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Description. 



wind-thrush, is in shape and colour very like the 

 song-thrush, but in no esteem for singing. It 

 is a bird of passage that shifts places according 

 to the season of the year; but whither it goes 

 cannot be ascertained. 



LOCUST-EATING THRUSH. 



THIS new species, which is found in the inte- 

 rior of the south of Africa, only in places which 

 the migrating locusts frequent, has received from 

 Mr. Barrow the specific name of gryllivorus; its 

 whole food seems to consist of the larvae of 

 locusts; and, in districts which this insect does 

 not infest, it is very seldom to be found. Its 

 head, breast, and back, are of a pale ash-colour; 

 and the abdomen and ramp white. The wings 

 and tail are black ; the latter short, and a little 

 forked. From the angle of the mouth a naked 

 area of sulphureous yellow extends under the eye 

 and a little beyond it; and there are two naked 

 black streaks under the throat. 



This bird seems to have been peculiarly or- 

 dained by Providence as a relief to the inhabi- 

 tants of the country, where it is found, from the 

 dreadful attacks of those most voracious and 

 jnost numerous of all insects. For, however 

 astonishing the multitudes of locusts may be, 

 the numbers of gryllivori are not less so. Their 

 pests., which at a distance seem of a most enor- 



