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those on the rump, are tinged with obscure fulvous : 

 the wings are brown, the greater quills are slightly 

 margined with whitish, the latter with dull ferru- 

 ginous, and the scapulars with a broad base of white : 

 the tail is black, tipped with white ; all the feathers 

 are pointed at their extremities ; the margin of each 

 has a central line of white, longer, narrower, and less 

 conspicuous than in Th. ambiguus ; the tarsi are 

 longer than those of that bird, and nearly a quarter 

 of an inch longer than in T. naevius. 



Mr. Swainson is in doubt whether the two last 

 birds are distinct from T. naevius, as he had only 

 observed single specimens : however the length of 

 the tarsi, independent of other characters, appears 

 sufficient to warrant their separation. 



Sp. 19. Th. ferrugineus. Zool. Jour. (Swain.) ii. 92. 



Th. ferrugineo-fuscus, i?zfrd pallid e Julvus j vertice rufo; alis 

 Jiiscis ; maculis dorsum tectriceque ornantibus albis ; rectri- 

 cium ruforum apicibus obtusis. 



Ferruginous-brown Bush-Shrike, beneath pale fulvous ; with the 

 crown rufous ; wings brown ; spots on the back and wing- 

 coverts white ; tail-feathers rufous, the tips obtuse. 



Allied to Th. torquatus : length six inches : the 

 ground-colour of the upper plumage is ferruginous- 

 brown, the top . of the head bright rufous, its sides 

 greyish : the feathers in the middle of the back are 

 snowy-white towards their tips : the wing-coverts are 

 blackish-brown, tipped with white, which colour forms 

 two bands : the scapular quills are blackish, with 

 broad-white margins, the rest of the quills are brown, 

 margined with ferruginous, and whitish : all the under 



