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MERULIDjfl. 



fNSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MERULIDM. 





GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. 



Turdus aurigaster. 



Turdus aurigaster, VIEILLOT Encyclop. Method, p. 657. 



Le Culdor, LE VAILLANT, Ois. d'Afriq. vol. iii. p. 46. 



pi. 147. f. 2. 

 Turdus chrysorhceus, TEMM. Plan. Color. 



LESSON, Man. d'Ornith. t. 1. p. 231. 



Gold vented Thrush, LATHAM. Gen. Hist. v. 5. p. 82. sp. 75. 

 Htzmatornis SWAINSON, Class, of Birds, v. 2. p. 228. 



Pycnonotus THOMPSON, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 15. p. 308. 



IN the month of January 1838, this rare African Thrush 

 was shot at Mount Beresforcl, three and a half miles from 

 Waterford, by a lad while out shooting Blackbirds; he 

 considered it a hen Blackbird, and sold it to Dr. Robert 

 Burkitt of Waterford, who skinned and preserved it ; the 



