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Le Merle brun du Cap de Bon Efperance, Buf. oif. iis p. 378. 
IZE of a Blackbird: length ten inches. General colour brown, 
with a reflection of dull green in fome lights: the belly and 
rump white: the wings reach to about the middle of the 
tail. 
This was brought from the Cape by M. Somnerat. 
L’Ourovang, ou Merle cendre de Madagafcar, Bri/. ors. ii. p. 291. pl. 25. 
f. 2.—Buf otf. iii. p. 380.—Pl. enl. 557. f. 2. 
ENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill narrow, marked near 
the end with brown, and befet with briftles at the bafe: the 
general colour of the plumage is cinereous, very dark, and inclined 
to greenifh black on the crown: the reft of the head, neck, © 
brea{t, upper parts of the body, and leffer wing coverts, incline 
to olive green: greater wing coverts, quills, and tail, dark afh- 
colour : belly and vent yellowifh : legs brown. - 
Inhabits Aadaga/car, where it is called Ourovong. 
Le Merle des Colombiers, Buf. cif ili. p. 3816 
IZE of a Throfle: general colour green, which is very 
changeable in different reflections of light. Some of thefe 
birds are lefs thar others, and have a white rump and vent; but 
whether young birds, or different in fex, is not known. 
Thefe are met with in the Philippine Iles, where they are called 
Pigeon Starlings; as they frequently, like the Starlings in Europe, 
build in p geon- houfes. 
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