TED RA Sh ig 
ENGTH about ten inches: general colour of the plumage pale 
brown, inclining to afh colour beneath, and a little mottled on 
the breaft: the tail is cuneiform, and pretty long, but the wings are 
remarkably fhort, fcarcely reaching to the rump: the bill and legs 
are dufky: at the gape and before the eyes a few black briftles: 
irides blueifh. 
Inhabits New South Wales, and is chiefly feen on the ground, or 
at moft taking very fhort flights, being unable to accomplifh long 
ones, from the fhortnefs of the wings. 
IZE of a Miféel Thrufb: bill pale red; tongue briftly: legs pale 
red: head, hind part of the neck and fides of the breaft dufky 
black: back and wing coverts greenifh brown: breaft and belly 
olive yellow: chin, fore part of the neck and vent white: quills 
olive brown; the leffer ones barred with black: tail olive above and 
pale beneath: at the back of the neck are tranfverfe black marks, 
and between that and the fides of the breaft a few fagittal marks. 
Inhabits New South Wales: is migratory, coming in the {pring for 
the purpofe of incubation, and departing in autumn. 
HIS fpecies has the upper parts pale brown, fpotted with black : 
the fore part as far as the breaft flate colour, from thence red- 
difh white: fides over the thighs and vent marked with fhort black 
ftreaks: over the eye a white ftreak: the chin is white ; below this 
on each fide is a rufous patch reaching behind the eye: quills and 
tail dufky: bill black: legs yellow. 
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40. 
SHORT- 
WINGED 
THR. 
Descaiprion. 
PLace. 
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YEPLOW. 
BELLIED 
THR. 
DescrRiprion. 
PLaAce. 
32. 
PUNCTATED 
THR. 
DescriPrion. 
