34 
FEMALE. 
PLAcEe 
300 
THICK-BILLED 
THR. 
Pi. XXXVII. 
DESCRIPTION. 
FEeMALB, 
PLAGE. 
hors Ry US i: 
form, and blackifh; the four outer feathers on each fide 
tipped with white: legs red. 
That defcribed by Cazefby had the bill, and whole of the 
throat, black ; and the reft of the body dufky blue. 
The female is fmaller than the male. 
Found in feveral parts of North America, frequently feen in 
Carolina, and are faid to be moft common in the iflands of 
Andros and [lathera. 
Lev. Mus. 
SIZE of the Mifel Thrufh: \ength nine inches. Bill three 
quarters of an inch; very ftout for the genus, and notched 
near the tip; the colour blackifh; at the bafe a few briftles: 
irides pearl-coloured: the upper parts of the plumage are rufous 
brown : fides of the head, and all the under parts, dufky brown, 
verging to afh-colour about the neck; each feather marked down 
the fhaft with a very pale rufous ftreak as far as the breaft, and 
from thence with a white one: the quills, and two middle tail 
feathers, are darker than the back; the reft of the feathers like 
thofe of the Redftart’s tail, but duller: the tail is even at the 
end, and the feathers. rather pointed at the tips: the legs. 
dufky. 
The female is wholly of a pale reddifh brown, lighteft beneath, 
where it is dafhed with white like the male: acrofs the wing 
coverts two rufous bars.. 
This fpecies was met with in Nee Zealand, both in Dufky 
Bay and Queen Charlotte’s Sound. Sir Fofeph Banks’s drawings 
inform me that it is known there by the name of Gold devo. 
9 SIZE. 
