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PLACE AND 
Manners. 
VARIETIES 
121. 
BLUE-T AILED 
THR. 
Description. 
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of the neck to the breaft, taking in the eye, under which it is 
broadeft : the belly, thighs, and vent, are afh-colour: the legs 
blueith. 
This bird is found with the others, and is faid to have a tre- 
mulous note, ending in a fharp fhort cry. The neft is made of 
mofs; and the eggs are brown, the fize of thofe of a Sparrow, 
marked with fpots of a deeper colour at the larger end. 
Thefe are lively birds, but feldom fly to any diftance; and are 
often feen running up the trees like the Creeper and Woodpecker, 
fupporting themfelves by the tail. Are fubject to variety. In 
fome fpecimens the chin and throat are rufous, bounded with 
black, inftead of being wholly black ; the ends of the tail- 
feathers black ; and a bed of white between the fhoulders. 
In others, the middle of the chin and throat is nearly white ; 
and in all of them the belly and vent are cinereous, and the thighs 
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in fome few rufous brown. 
L’Avurin, Buf. otf. iii. p. 410. iv. p. 470. 
Merle de la Guiane, P/. exl. 355. 
HIS exceeds a Blackbird in fize, and is eight inches and a 
half in length. Bull one inch, brown: the top of the head 
to the nape is black : from the noftrils, over the eye, paffes an 
orange band, meeting at the neck behind : from the gape fprings 
a broad {tripe of black, taking in the eye, and paffing on each 
fide the neck to the back: the chin and throat are pale yellow: 
on the breaft is a broad band of blue : the back, fcapulars, and ad- 
joining wing coverts, reddifh brown; but thofe next the outer 
part and quills are black, except the greater wing coverts, which 
have a white tip, forming an oblique indented band on the 
wing: 
