TET S- FEL. 
parts, from the breaft, ferruginous orange: quills dufky olack : the 
“tail is greatly cuneiform in fhape, the two middle feathers being 
fix inches and a half long, and the outer ones only two inches and 
a half; the four middle feathers are wholly black; the next on 
each fide, half black half white; and the three outer ones wholly 
white: legs pale yellow: claws black. Poe 
Inhabits Pulo Condore. Sonnerat defcribes one very like this 
from the coaft of Malabar*. The four middle tail feathers in 
his bird were black; the others half black half white. 
Le Merle d’Amboine, Brif. ora. il. p. 244. N° 16.—Buf. off. iii. p. 394. 
Avicula Amboinenfis cinerea, Seba, vol.i. p. 99. t. 62. £. 4. 
IZE bigger than a Lark. The head, neck, and upper parts 
of the body, are reddifh brown: breaft and under parts light 
yellow: the prime quills are reddifh brown; the leffer ones the 
fame, half their length from the tip, but from the middle to the 
bafe pale yellow: tail, above, reddifh brown; beneath, golden 
yellow ; the fhape cuneiform. 
This inhabits 4mboina, and is faid to fing very finely. It is 
alfo remarkable for flirting up its tail quite on the back in the 
breeding feafon, 
Le Merle de L’Ifle de Bourbon, Bri/. orn. ii. p. 293. N° 4. pl. 24. £. 3.— 
Buf. cif. iii. p. 395. 
I ZE of the laft: length near eight inches. Bill yellowifh : 
crown of the head black; the reft of the head, neck, and 
* Le Gobe-mouche 4 longue queue de Gingi, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 196. - 
Voi. II. L breaft, 
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