224 MERULID&. 
INSESSORES. MERULID.. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
GOLD-VENTED THRUSH. 
Turdus aurigaster. 
Turdus aurigaster, VieitLor Encyclop. Method. p. 657. 
Le Culdor, LE VaILuant, Ois. d’Afriq. vol. iii, p. 46. 
We Wale 1 
Turdus chrysorheus, es Tremm. Plan. Color. 
39 BS a Lzsson, Man. d’Ornith. t. 1. p. 231. 
Gold vented Thrush, LATHAM. Gen. Hist. v. 5. p. 82. sp. 75. 
Hematornis ,, Swainson, Class. of Birds, y. 2. p. 228. 
Pycnonotus > THompson, Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. 15. p. 308. 
In the month of January 1838, this rare African Thrush 
was shot at Mount Beresford, three and a half miles from 
Waterford, by a lad while out shooting Blackbirds; he 
considered it a hen Blackbird, and sold it to Dr. Robert 
Burkitt of Waterford, who skinned and preserved it; the 
