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HERMIT THR. 
DescriPTion. 
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ROCK THR. 
DescripTion, 
Te Hy Re Osh 
Le Solitaire des Philippines, Bri/ orn. ii. p. 272. N°3. pl. 28. 1.—Buf. off 
lil. p. 364.—P/, exh. 339+ 
Le N GT H {even inches and a half. Bill one inch, brown, 
with a whitifh bafe: round the eyes whitifh: the crown of 
the head is yellowith olive: hind-head, upper parts of the neck, 
and back, brown; each feather having a dufky band near the 
tip, which is whitifh: the fides of the head, and under parts of the 
body, have each feather of a rufous white margined with brown, 
and a dirty rufous white tip: the leffer wing coverts and rump 
are cinereous: quills and tail brown, bordered with grey: legs 
brown. 
Inhabits the Philippine Ifes, and feems to have much affinity to 
the lait. 
Merula faxatilis, Razz Syn. p. 68. Ne a 
Greater Redftart, Will. orn. p.197. pl. 36. 
1 ZE of a Thrufh. Bill pale brown, like that of a Thrufh, 
and rather bent at the tip: the upper parts of the plu- 
mage deep brown; moft of the feathers edged with cinereous 
white: rump ferruginous, edged with the fame: the chin white: 
throat as the upper parts, but much paler: the fore part of 
the neck, and all the under parts, dirty orange-colour, waved 
with brown and white: the two middle tail feathers brown, edged 
with dirty orange; the others wholly of this laft colour: legs 
dufky *. 
* T much fafpe& it to be a variety of the Rock Shrike, vol. i, pe 176, if not 
the fame bird; and if fo, it is clearly a Thrujh, and not a Shrike. It differs, 
however, from that in the P/, eal. as the bird there figured has the lower part 
ofthe back and rump white. : 
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