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INSECTIVOKE. 



Family TURDIDJU. 



Genus Turdus. 



NAUMANN'S THRUSH. 



Turdus naumannii. 



Turd 



us naumannii, 



fuscatus, 



eunomns, 



Merle Naumann, 

 Naumanris Drossel, 



Temminck; Man., 1820. 



Bonaparte. Schinz. 



Keyserling and Blasius. 



schlegel. 



Pallas; Zoogr., 1, p. 451. 



Gould; Birds of Asia. 



Temminck; Fauna Japonica. 



Naumann. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage , ash- coloured red above; in the 

 adult marked below with large red spots fringed with white, and 

 in the young with triangular spots of blackish brown. Length 

 ten inches. 



This is said to be one of the Asiatic Thrushes dis- 

 covered and designated by Pallas Turdus fuscatus. 

 Temminck described it in his "Manual" of 1820 as T. 

 naumannii, after the distinguished ornithologist of that 

 name. Mr. Gould, in his "Birds of Europe," adopts 



