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20. 
PAGODA THR. 
DescriPTion: 
PLACE. 
21. 
MALABAR 
THR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE: 
22. 
RUFOUS- 
TAILED THR. 
DescrRIPTION. 
Pl GA NR aU 4S oe. 
Le Martin Brame, Sox. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 189. 
A THER bigger than the Houfe Sparrow. Bill black, 
with the end half yellow: irides blue: the feathers of the 
head are black, long, and narrow, and form a creft ; thofe of the 
throat, neck, breaft, and belly, are of the fame fhape, and each 
has a line of white down the fhaft: the back, wing coverts, and 
rump, are grey: the quills and tail black: under tail -coverts 
white: legs and claws yellow. 
This inhabits the coafts of Malabar and Coromandel, where it 
is called Martin Brame, as it chiefly is met with about the towers 
of the Pagodas. 
Le Martin vieillard de la Céte de Malabar, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 195. 
NDER eight inches in length. The bill is black, inclining 
to yellow at the tip: the head’and neck feathers are long 
and narrow, of acinerous grey, with a ftreak of white down the 
fhaft: the back, rump, wing coverts, and tail, are cinereous grey: 
quills black: the breaft, belly, and under tail coverts, rufous 
brown: the legs yellow. 
Inhabits the coaft of Malabar. 
LENGTH feven inches. Bill black ; tip curved : upper parts 
of the bird olive brown, beneath pale purplifh white: quills 
and tail dufky; all but the two middle feathers rufous for two- 
thirds 
