te AR U4.S ve. 
Le Merle verd a4 longue queue du Senegal, Brif: orx. ii. po 313. N° 54. 
pl. 31. f. 1.—Buf,. off. iii, p. 369.—PI. enl. 220. 
Le Merle cuivre d’Afrique, Salerz. orm. p. 182. 
IZ E larger than a Blackbird: length eighteen inches, of 
which the tail makes eleven. The bill black: general colour 
of the plumage gloffy green in different fhades : the head inclines 
to blackifh, with a gold caft: belly and thighs gloffed with cop- 
per: rump, and two middle tail feathers, incline to purple; the 
fhape of the laft greatly cuneiform, the outermoft feather being 
very fhort: legs black. 
Inhabits Senegal. Buffon mentions one in the Cabinez du Rot, 
which had a much fhorter tail; but fuppofes it not to have been 
in a perfect ftate. 
Le Merle violet du Royaume de Juida, Buf. oi/. iil. p. 373.—P/. enl. 540. 
IZ E of the laft. Bill brown: irides yellow: the head, neck, 
and under parts of the body, are violet: back and wings of 
a gilded green, with a band of blue on the inner edge: the upper 
tail coverts and tail blue: legs reddifh brown. 
Inhabits the kingdom of Whidah, in Africa, and feems to bear 
much affinity to the two laft-defcribed. 
Le Merle bleu-de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. vol.ii. p. 188. pl. 108. 
IZE of our Blackbird. Bill black: irides red: the whole 
plumage of a changeable violet blue: the feathers of the 
head, neck, breaft, and wing coverts, have at the end a band of 
Voz. II. I changeable 
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61. 
GLOSSY THR. 
DescrirTion. 
PLace. 
62. 
GILDED THR. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
PLace. 
63. 
VIOLET THR. 
DescriPTioNne 
