TURDUS OBSCURUS.— Smith. 



AvEs.— Plate XXXVI.— Male. 



T. capite, dorso, gula, gutturc, pectore, abdominisque lateribus griseo-brunneis ; abdomine medio Immerisque 

 interne rubro-aurantiis ; caudas tectricibus inferioribus griseo-brunneis, singulis linea longitudinali 

 alba variegatis ; alariim tectricibus niinoribus, remigium tectricibus, reniigibus, rectricibusque 

 brunneis ; rostro pedibusque flavis ; oculis brunneis. 



LoNGlTUDO corporis cum capite, 5 imc ; caudw, ih unc. 



Merdla obscura, Smith. — App. to Rop. of Expcd. p. 4o, June, 183G. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head, neck and body, together with the 

 chin, throat, breast, and sides of belly, intermediate between broccoli and 

 clove-brown (greyish brown), — the colour of the four last named regions 

 lightest. Lesser wing coverts, primary and secondary quill coverts, quill- 

 feathers, and tail umber-brown, glossed with broccoli-brown, the tail darkest. 

 Belly reddish orange, deadened with a tint of greyish-brown ; inner surface 

 of wings towards shoulders bright reddish orange ; luider tail-coverts greyish- 

 brown, each feather with a dirty whitish stripe in the course of the shaft, and 

 several of them are tipped with the same colour. Bill, legs and claws, 

 yellow. Eyes dark brown. 



Form, &c. — Typical. Bill rather slender, and strongly compressed, the 

 upper mandible considerably longer than the lower, and flattened towards the 

 point ; angles of mouth sparingly furnished with short bristles. Wings 

 iTioderately long, and when folded reach to the commencement of the last 

 half of the tail ; the fourth and fifth quill feathers equal and longest, the 

 third and sixth slightly shorter, the second about half an inch shorter than 

 the third, the first rudimentary, and scarcely more than an inch in length. 

 Tail slightly rounded at the point. Tarsi and toes robust, the former with 



