TURBID,*. 1 29 



bushes, making a nest like that of the blackbird, and lined with fibres 

 and roots. The eggs, large for the size of the bird, are generally four 

 in number, of a light verditer blue, mottled with irregular patches of 

 brown, thickest on the obtuse end : axis, 15'" ; diam., II'". 



241. Turdus Gurneyi, Hartib.; ibis Vol. ise*. 



p. 349. 



ABOVE, olive-brown ; spot between the eye and the bill, throat, 

 chest, and flanks, cinnamon ; belly and under tail-covers, pure 

 white ; tail coloured as the back ; two rows of white spots 

 across the wing. Length, 6" 5'" ; wing, 4" 5"' ; tail, 3" 3'". 

 Natal. Mr. Ayres. Non vidi. 



242. Turdus Senegalensis, Cuv. nee Gmei.* 



VoL 6, p. 379; T. Nigerrimus, GmeL, PL Enl, t. 539, 2. 



" SHINING black ; feathers yellow-edged ; throat, quills, and 

 tail black." 



South Africa. Cuv., loc. cit. ; but in reality from Madagascar. 



Genus PETROCINCLA,f Vigors; Rock- Thrushes. 

 Bill notched ; culmen curved to the tip, which is bent, but 

 not hooked over the lower mandible, nearly entire ; wings 

 moderate ; first quill spurious, second shorter than the three 

 next, which are equal and longest ; tail even ; anterior scales 

 divided ; lateral toes equal ; claws small, slightly curved. 



243. Petrocincla Rupestris, Cuv., Vol. c, p. 



376 ; Turdus Rupestris, Vieill. ; Pet. Montana, Sw. ; 

 T. Rupicola, Lieht. j \JFW. Jtoaar> Steph. ; Le ILocar, 

 Le Vail., Pis. 101, 102. 



THE whole of the head and throat, dark ashy-blue ; back and 

 wings dark-brown ; the former with a deep rufous tinge, 

 increasing towards the rump, which is entirely deep rufous ; 

 the tail is also rufous, with the exception of the two centre 

 feathers ; all the under parts deep rufous, lightest towards 

 the vent ; 9 wants the blue head, otherwise she is like the 

 male ; irides dark-brown. Length, 9" ; wing, 4" 6'",; tail,3" 8"'. 



This rock-thrush is seldom found except among stones covering the 

 sides of mountains. In habits it closely resembles P. Explorator. 



I have seen it at Kalk and Simon's Bays, and on. Table Mountain. 

 I have also received it from Swellendam, Beaufort, and Colesberg. 



Mrs. Barber informs me that it breeds in holes -under rocks, and 



* T, Senegaknsis of Gmelin == Phyllastrephus Lugubris, Bodd. 



t Mr. Gray (Genera of Birds, p. 218) makes this genus synonymous with Turrltm. 



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