DescriptTion, 
‘FEWALs. 
PLACED 
a FF RU SS B. 
“Turdus Zeylonus, Lin, Syf?.i. p. 297. N° 28. 
.Le Merle 4 Collier du Cap de B. Efp. Brif. ore. it, p. 299. N° 46. pl. 30, 
f. 1.— PI, enl. 272. 
Le Plaftron Noir de Ceilan, Buf. off. ili. p. 374. 
»Green Pye of the Ifle.of Ceylon, Edqw. pl. 321. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
SIZE of a Blackbird: length feven inches and a half. Bill 
black: the crown of the head is cinereous olive; from 
‘thence to the tail fine olive green: over the eye a ftreak of yel- 
low: chin and throat yellow : from the noftrils through the eye, 
‘bending forwards to the fore part of the neck, is a ftreak of 
black, which blends itfelf with a deep crefcent of the fame on 
the breaft: belly, vent, and thighs, yellow: the tail is cuneiform, 
and three inches and a half long; the two middle feathers are 
like the back; the others are black, with yellow tips: the legs 
-are blackith. 
The female wants both the black ftreak which paffes through 
the eye of the male, as well as the collar on the breaft: the upper 
parts are greenifh yellow: the throat grey: and the breaft and 
belly greenifh yellow, but paler than the upper parts. 
The native place of this bird is fuppofed to be Ceylon; but is 
Jikewife frequently received from the Cape wf Good Hope* ; whe- 
ther indigenous likewife to that place is uncertain, The female 
has much refemblance to the following fpecies. 
* Two, from that place, are in the collection of Charles Boddam, Efq3 
they are named Babakery ; in one of them there is only a patch of black on the 
throats, not a crefcent. 
L’oranvert, 
