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the vent : the chin and throat within the black are 

 white : the upper parts of the back, wings, and rump, 

 are yellowish, or olive-green : the quills are dusky- 

 brown, edged with grey : the tail the same, rounded 

 at the end, the edges greenish : the wings reach very 

 little beyond the rump : legs dusky brown. 



Sp. 41. Tu. atrogularis. 



Tu. olivaceo-cinereus facie, malts, collo antice, pectoreque supremo 

 nigris ; pectore infimo ventroque rufescente-albidis ; lateribus 

 fusco maculatis. 



Olive-ash Thrush with the face, cheeks, neck in front, and upper 

 breast black 3 lower breast and belly reddish-white; the sides 

 spotted with brown. 



Turdus atrogularis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 1 69. — Black- 

 breasted Thrush. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v. 37. 



Inhabits South-eastern Europe. Length of the 

 male ten inches and a half: beak dusky-brown, the 

 lower mandible yellow at the base : irides deep brown : 

 face, cheeks, fore part of the neck and breast, deep 

 black, with a cinereous tinge at the end of the fea- 

 thers of the last : lower part of the breast and middle 

 of the belly whitish, inclining to rufous on the sides, 

 which are speckled with deep brown ; under tail- 

 coverts pale rufous, with white tips : the rest of the 

 parts above ash-colour, with an olive tinge, deepest 

 on the head : wing-coverts fringed with yellowish : 

 legs brown. 



Sp. 42. Tu? Naumanni. 



Tu? rufo-cinereus pennis margine pallidioribus ; medio ventris 



femoribusque albis; vertice auribnsquefuscis. 

 Rufous-ash Thrush with the feathers edged with paler; the middle 

 of the belly and thighs white ; the crown and ears brown. 



