T HR US 
Merle 4 Cul. jaune du Cap, Buf. off iil. p. 390.—P/. ent. 317. 
HIS differs from-the laft in being fomewhat larger. The 
head and throat are black ; the reft of the plumage of the 
fame colour with-the laft. The bill feems ftronger at the bafe, 
and is fomewhat more curved than ufual in this genus. 
This is moft likely a mere variety of the other. 
LENGTH almoft feven inches. Bill of a deep Iead-colour, 
with a few briftles at the bafe: on the forehead a white {pot : 
head, neck, and upper parts of the body, very deep lead-colour, 
almoft black: under parts dirty yellowifh buff-colour: legs 
brown. 
Met with in Dufky Bay, New Zealand ; alfo common in Charlotte 
Sound, called by the natives Gha-toitoz. In the collection of Sir 
F. Banks. 
Lev. Muf: 
ENGTH fix inches. Bill black ; bafe of it furnifhed with 
briftles : the plumage on the upper part of the body is black : 
on each fide of the forehead, at the noftrils, a fpot of white: 
beneath, from the breaft to vent, white : tail black ; all the feathers 
a little pointed at the end ; under part of it afh-colour. One of 
thefe birds was black on the middle of the belly, which perhaps. 
was of a different fex. 
Thefe are in the Leverian Mufeum, and appear to be varieties 
of the laft-defcribed. They came likewife from the South. Seas, 
but the place uncertain. 
Turdus 
71 
go. 
Var. A. 
DasCRIPTION. 
gl. 
WHITE- 
FRONTED 
THR. 
DEscriPTion.. 
PLace. 
gl. 
Var. As 
DEscRIPTION» 
