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Le Merle cendré des Indes, Bri/ orm, ii, p. 286. N° 39. pl. 25. f 3.—Buf. 
cif, lil. Pe 3856 
LE SS than a Redwing : length feven inches and three quarters. 
Bill black, with a few briftles at the bafe: the plumage of a 
deep afh-colour, paleft beneath: the greater wing coverts black, 
with grey edges: quills the fame, but the white is broader 
on the fecondaries than the greater ones; the fecondaries have 
alfo part of the inner webs white: the two middle tail feathers 
are like the back; the next on each fide is black, with the 
margins and tips afh-colour ; the reft of the outer ones black ; 
the legs black. 
inhabits the Zaft Indies. 
Le Merle gris de Gingi, Sox. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 193. 
Ls than a Blackbird. Bill yellowifh white: the top of the 
head, and ‘hind part of the neck, are whitifh: the throat, 
fore part of the neck, back, wings, and tail, deep grey: the 
breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, very pale reddifh grey: legs yel- 
lowifh. 
Inhabits the coaft of Coromandel: chiefly feen on the ground, 
where it is perpetually hopping after worms and infects, which it 
finds in the dung of animals, whence it has gained the name of 
Fouille-merde. 
Lev. Myf. 
J_ENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill an inch and a half 
long, moderately bent, and of a brownifh flefh-colour; near 
the tip an almoft obfolete notch; at the gape a few black weak 
K 3 hairs ; 
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82. 
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LOURED THR. 
DescrRiFTioON. 
PLacr. 
83. 
GREY THR. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Prace. 
84. 
LONG-BILLED 
THR. 
DeEscRipTion. 
