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brown: belly, thighs, and vent, white: quills blackith; from the 
fecond to the fixth, part white part violet on the outer webs ; 
the fecondaries black mixed with violet and green, and fome of 
the inner ones gloffed with a gilded rufous-colour: the two 
middle tail feathers green gold ; the others dufky, with the outer 
margins green gold: the outermoft feather is white on the exte- 
rior margin, and the two next fringed with white: the fhape of 
the tail fomewhat forked: legs black. 
This inhabits Madaga/car, and is called Zanaombé. 
Le Merle de Mindanao, Bzf. o:/. ili. p. 387.—P/. enl. 627. f. 1. 
LENGTH feven inches. Bill lead-colour: head, neck, upper 
parts, and tail, fteel blue: the breaft, and under parts, 
white: on the wing, near the edge, is a longitudinal band of 
white; the greater coverts and part of the fecondaries being of 
that colour: the tail is fomewhat cuneiform in fhape: the legs 
are brown. 
Brought from Mindanao by M. Sonnerat. 
A bird of this kind had the greater quills fined with deep 
changeable green, and fome fpots of gloffy variable violet in fe- 
veral parts of the body, efpecially at the hind part of the 
head. 
Le Merle vert de 1’Ifle de Brace Buf. otf. iii. p. 388.—P. enl. 648. f. 2. 
ESS than the Redwing: length feven inches. Bill afh-co- 
loured : the plumage is wholly of a deep greenifh blue 
throughout: the feathers of the head and neck are narrow, and 
longer than the others: the legs are lead-coloured. 
Inhabits the [le of France. 
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