74 
CROWNED 
THR. 
DescRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
Manners. 
97: 
ASH-RUMPED 
THR. 
DescRIPTION. 
Ca se AOS hie Olas) ea) & 
breaft, upper parts of the body, and leffer wing coverts, cinereous 
olive: belly, fides, and vent, olive yellow: middle of the belly 
whitifh: greater wing coverts brown, mixed with pale rufous: 
quills brown, edged with pale rufous, except three of the middle 
ones, which are plain brown: tail brown, with two tranfverfe 
brown bands near the end, one of them paler than the other: the 
legs are yellowifh. 
Inhabits the [/e of Bourbon. 
Yellow-crowned Thruth, Browz’s Ilufir. p. 50. pl. 226 
IZE of the common Thrufh. — Bill black: crown of the head 
and cheeks pale yellow: lower part of the laft bounded by a 
black line, extending from the bill: breaft and belly cinereous ; 
the firft marked with white and dufky fagittal lines: greater 
quills, tail, and tegs, dull green. 
Inhabits Ceylon and Fava, where it is called Z/utju crawan. Is 
frequently kept in cages, as it imitates, in a very lively manner, 
almoit every note that is whiftled to it. 
Le Merle des Indes, Brif. orz. ii. p. 248. N° 1g. pl. 31. f. 3.— Buf otf. 
lil. p. 397-—-PI. enl. 273. f. 2. 
S! ZE a trifle bigger than a Lark: length fix inches and a 
half. Bill black: upper parts of the head, neck, and back, 
black ; lower part of the back and rump afh-colour : fides of the 
head, and all beneath, white: thighs grey: from the bill through 
the eyes paffes ‘a.ftreak of black: the wing coverts are of a 
10 blackifh 
