434 CLASS AVES. 



Black-crowned Thrush, Lewin's Birds, N. H. t. 10. 

 T. Gutfuralis, Lath. Suppl. 



Olive-yellow ; head and pectoral spot black ; crop 

 white ; nuchal collar, chest, belly, and vent yellow ; 

 called Thunder Bird. New Holland. 



Orange-breasted Thrush, Lewin's Birds, N. H. t. 6. 

 Muse. Pectoralis, Lath. 



Gray ; throat, eye-streak, and pectoral spot black ; 

 crop white ; belly ferrugineous ; wings and tail blackish- 

 brown ; externally gray-edged. New Holland. 



Pachycephala Striata, Vig. and 

 Horsf. 



Above olive-gray, slightly brown-streaked, beneath 

 whitish, with broader brown-streaks ; wings and tail 

 brown ; female, above gray, beneath yellowish-white, 

 brown-streaked ; throat whitish ; length six inches and 

 a quarter. New Holland. 



The Warblers, (Motacilla^ Lin.) 



form a family exceedingly numerous, remarkable by 

 the straight slender beak, like an awl. When it is a 

 little depressed at the base, it approaches to that of the 

 Flycatchers. When compressed, and with a point 

 slightly curved, it approximates to the Straight-beaked 

 Shrikes. 



Naturalists have attempted to divide them as fol- 

 lows: 



The Stonechats, {Saxicola, Bechst. ) 

 have the beak a little depressed, and a little broad at 



