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wing : the tail is two inches and a half only in length, cuneiform, 
and of a blue colour: all the under parts of the body, from the 
breaft to the vent, are tran{verfely itriped with blue and yellow 
alternate : the legs are brown. 
_This inhabits Guana, and is a rare fpecies: It feems to ftand 
between the Crow genus and that of the Thrufb, properly belong- 
ing to neither, and placed by us at the heels of the laft, from 
many characteriftics denoting its near alliance. 
Le Roi des Fourmilliers, Buf. oi/. iv. p. 468.—Pl. exl. 702. 
THIS is as large in the body as the Miffel Thrufh, yet from the 
fhortnefs of the tail is only feven inches and a half in 
length. The bill is brown, and meafures lefs than an inch and a 
quarter; is ftout at the bafe, and bent towards the point; and, 
were the noftrils covered with reflected briftles, would pafs for one 
of the Crow genus; the bafe is befet with a few briftles: the 
plumage on the upper parts of the body is rufous brown, darkeft 
on the back and wing coverts, each feather of which has a pale 
fhaft: the quills are dufky : the back part of the head is lead- 
colour: the forehead, to the middle of the crown, is mixed white 
_ and brown: the under parts of the body are paler rufous brown, 
changing to whitifh towards the vent, and clouded with buff on 
the breaft: from the fide of the under jaw is a ftreak of white, 
and on the middle of the breaft is a triangular patch of the fame: 
the tail is very fhort, only fourteen lines long, juft peeping from 
the rump: the legs are long, of a reddifh colour, and bare above 
the knee, but the thighs are fhort: the claws are pale. The 
female bigger than the male. 
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