T URDUS vocifnans, 

 Calling Thrush. 



Specific Character. 



T. cinereus, infra ferrugincus ; tcmporibus aurilmsquc vigris ; caudcc 

 rotundata- i}ennis mediis iiigris, latcribus ferrugincis. 



Cinereous, beneath ferruginous ; ears and sides of the head black ; 

 tail rounded, middle feathers black, lateral feathers ferruginous. 



Le Reclammeur. Lc Vaill. Ois. d'Af. torn. 3. p. 33, pi. 104. 



1 CAN find no account of this bird in any writer besides 

 Le Vaillant, who discovered it during his travels in Southern 

 Africa. He says the note of the male bird is loud and 

 melodious, and is heard in the morning and evening from 

 the highest branches of lofty trees ; the sexes being usually 

 seen together. Le Vaillant relates an amusing anecdote, 

 which well illustrates the peculiar note of the male : — One of 

 his Dutch Hottentots, by name Piet, having shot a female, 

 its mate continued to fly around him, uttering its cry, which 

 so much resembled the Dutch words of Piet myn vrow, (or, 

 * Peter — my wife,') that the poor lad (perfectly astonished) 

 took to his heels, and vowed never more to handle a gun. 



Length seven inches and a half; the upper plumage is 

 dark cinereous : on each side the head is a stripe of black, 

 which encircles the eye, and forms a patch on the ears : the 

 whole of the under plumage is clear ferruginous yellow or 

 bright buff colour; the rump and lateral tail feathers the 

 same, the middle pair being entirely black ; the next pair 

 has likewise a narrow margin of the same colour: quills 

 and wing-covers dusky brown, with pale cinere6us margins. 

 Tail rounded : legs pale : irides hazel : bill rather small and 

 black, compressed the whole length, and having weak bristles 

 at its base. 



This bird obviously belongs to the Thrushes ; but as I 

 have not yet defined the extent of the genus to my own 

 satisfaction, I refrain at present from proposing its characters. 



PI. 180. 



