Bere Ry Us SiH. 
Le Merle a gorge noire de St. Domingue, Buf. off, iii. p. 382.—P/. enl. 559. 
es. 
780 
BLACK- 
THROALED | 
THR. 
GIZE of a Throftle: length feven inches and a half. Bill Description. 
black: the forehead, between the bill and eye, the chin, 
throat, and as far as the breaft, are black; this is bordered by 
rufous, extending to the crown, which is of the fame colour : 
hind part of the neck, back, and wing coverts, grey brown, more 
or lefs fhaded with brown: greater coverts and quills, blackifh 
brown, edged with light grey: rump, and under parts of the 
body, greenifh yellow, marked with fome large fcattered black 
{pots on the breaft and belly: tail three inches long, rounded in 
fhape ; the colour the fame as the back ; all but the middle fea- 
thers margined with blackifh: iegs black. 
Inhabits St. Domingo. 
S§ MALLER than the Fieldfare: length feven inches. Bill 
black, beneath yellowifh, tip brown: head, neck, and upper 
parts of the body, greyifh green: over the eyes a white ftreak ; 
beneath them a white fpot: throat grey, fpotted with white: 
breaft and fides pale rufous: belly and vent white: thighs mixed, 
cinereous and white: fome of the quills brown, others grey: tail 
even at the end: legs and claws yellowith. 
Georgi * defcribes this fpecies from one kept in a cage, which 
- was fuppofed to have come from China ; and adds, that it fung 
well, and was fond of wetting itfelf with water, like the Star/ing. 
% See Ret/e, ps» 505. 
Vou. II. K - ‘Turdus 
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GREEN THR. 
DiscriFPFION. 
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