Plate LXXII. 



TURDUS LEUCOMELAS. 



Zonal obscuro y bianco 

 Tardus leucomelas 



Tardus amaurocJialinus 



Tiirdus albiventer, j 

 Tardus albiveniris 

 Turdus crotopezus 

 Turdus ignobilis 

 Tardus olivaceiis 

 Turdus rufiventris, % 



(AZAPtA'S THEUSH). 



Azara, Apunt. I., p. 341, no. Isxi. 



Vieill. N. D. xx. p. 238, et Enc. Metb. p. 644. 



Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 6. 



Scl. & SalT. P.Z.S. 1868, p. 138. 



Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 93. 



Cab. Mus. Hein. I. p. 5. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 329. 



Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, pp. 568, 749. 



Spix. Av. Bras. I. p. 70, t. 69, fig. 2. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1858,p.451,etl859,p. 328, e.t Cat. Am. B. p. 3,1. p. 70, (err.). 



Burm. Syst. CJeb. iii. p. 123, et La Plata-Eeise ii. p. 474. 



Scl. P.Z.S. 1857, p. 273 ; 1859, p. 328, et Cat. Am. B. p. 3. 



Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 17. 



d'Orb. Voy. Ois. p. 203. 



Supra cinerescenti-olivaceus, fere unicolor : loris nigris : subtus pallide cinereus, gifla albi fusco striata : collo 

 angusto, ventre imo et crisso albis : subalaribus dilute fulvis : long, tota 85, alae 4'5,,caudiB 3'5. 



Hab. In Paraguaya {Azara) : Eep. Argentina (Hudson) : Brasilia merid. orient, prov. S. Pauli (Natterer) : Minas 

 Geraes {Burmeister) : Bolivia {d' Orbigny) : Peruvia orient. Ucayali (Bartleit) : Eep. Equator, occ. {Fraser) : Nov. 

 Gjpanada int. (Mus. P. L. S.) : Cayenna (Mus. P. L. S.) 



This Thrush, has been united by different authors with T. aliiventris^ T. eroto-pezus^ and even 

 ■with the very distinct T. rufiventris^ of which d'Orbigny gravely tells us that it is the female. The 

 confusion thus caused has led to its having received three additional names besides the one 

 originally bestowed upon it by Vieillot. We hope that the figure of it herewith given, under what 

 we believe to be its oldest designation, will render it easily recognizable by future Ornithologists. 



Azara's description of his Zorzal ohscuro y bianco is, we must admit, as Dr. Cabanis has 

 already complained, a little obscure, but the fact of this being the only member of the section 

 found in Paraguay and the Argentine Eepublic leads us to believe that it is in all probability 

 Azara's species. It is certainly Turdus amaurocJialinus of Cabanis, as a specimen of it thus 

 marked in that author's own handwriting is in Sclater's collection. Spix appears to have 

 figured this bird as the female of his T. albiveniris^ and Sclater employed the same name for it 

 in. his " Synopsis of American Thrufehes," not being then acquainted with the bird legitimately 

 entitled to bear that name, of which we shall give a drawing in our next part. In both his 



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