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INSECTIVOR^E. 



Family TURBID^. 



Genus Petrocincla. ( Vigors.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak elongated and sub-cylindrical, the 

 edges of inferior mandible notched towards the point, to 

 correspond with the curve of the upper mandible. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, ovoid, and partly closed by a membrane; tarsi 

 of medium length; wings passing the middle of the tail; first 

 quill feather very short, the third the longest, the second a 

 little shorter than the third. Tail feathers equal at the end. 



BLUE THRUSH. 



Petrocincla cyanea. 



Petrocincla cyanea, Gould. Degland. 



" " Keyserling and Blasius. 



Tardus eyaneus, LinNjEDS. Gmelin. Latham. 



" " Meyer and Wolff. Temminck. 



" " VlEILLOT. SCHINZ. ScHLEGEL. 



" solitarius, (female,) 

 and manillensis, (young,) Latham; Index, p. 345. 

 Merula ccerulea, Brisson. 



Petrocossyphus eyaneus, Boie. Bonaparte. 



" " Loche; Cat. des Oiseaux 



Observes en Algeria. 

 Merle de Roche bleu, Of the French. 



Blaue Steindrossel, Of the Germans. 



