TURDUS RUFIVENTER, Vieill. 
RUFOUS-BELLIED THRUSH. 
Zorzal obscuro y roxo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 836 (1802); Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 6 (1845); Berl. 
J. f. O. 1887, p. 113. 
Turdus rufiventris, Vieill. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 226 (1818). 
Turdus chochi, Vieill. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 226 (1818). 
Turdus rufiventer, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 70, pl. Ixxiii. (1824); Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
y. p. 222 (1881). 
T. gutture striato : pedibus fuscis, minimé flavis: pectore griseo: abdomine aurantiaco-rufo. 
Тнв present species is, according to Mr. Hudson, common everywhere in the La Plata region, and 
does not seem to be migratory (Argent. Orn. i. p. 3). Durnford states that it is resident near 
Buenos Ayres, but is never seen in large parties like 7. leucomelas, and he found it common 
near Baradero in April (Ibis, 1877, р. 167). Darwin met with it at Maldonado (Voy. * Beagle,’ ii. 
р. 59), and Mr. Hudson at Conchitas (Scl. & Salv. P. 7. S. 1868, p. 188). According to Darwin - 
(1. с.) it occurs on the Rio Negro in Patagonia, which is its southern limit. Mr. E. W. White 
obtained specimens at Cosquin in the province of Cordova, and at Oran in Salta. He says:— 
* During my sojourn in Oran I did not meet with many of this species, but in the dense woods of 
Misiones they were abundant" (P. Z. S. 1883, p. 592). Near Lomas de Zamora, Mr. F. Withington 
describes the species as being very rare. Не writes :—“ I have only seen two examples altogether. 
One of them I shot in a small wood, whence it attracted me by its sweet song. It was very tame, 
and showed none of that skulking shyness which I noticed in this species in Banda Oriental " 
(Ibis, 1888, p. 462). | 
In Uruguay Mr. Barrows says that this species is called the “ Zorzal vientre colorado (Red-bellied 
Thrush).” He found it less abundant and more retiring than T. leucomelas, and it was seldom seen 
except in the woods: it was resident throughout the year at Concepcion (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii. 
p.85). Mr. O, V. Aplin observes :—* I found this fine Thrush common in the monte of the Rio Negro 
in Uruguay in December. "They were usually to be heard singing in the thick growth of mataojo on 
the river-bank and concealed from view on the land side. At other times they conceal themselves in 
thicker parts. I noticed one feeding on berries of Ше moyé. The song of this bird is to my mind 
by far the sweetest of any I have heard in South America. It is delivered after the fashion of our 
Song-Thrush, the notes being less varied than those of that bird, while some of them are even 
sweeter and richer. I syllabled one to sing * deur, deur, deur, sweet, sweet, ut-ich, ut-ich. It was not 
until March that I met with it in the valley of the Arroyo Grande, where I found one haunting a 
thicket (close to water) of guayaba and ñangapirí. I was attracted by the unmistakable low 
alarm-note of a Thrush, but the bird was so shy that I could not get a shot atit. A few days 
after I returned to the spot and secured it—a male, its stomach full of tala berries. Тһе bird 
is known as the “Zorzal, and an Englishman who had been in many parts of the South American 
continent told me that it was everywhere celebrated for its song." 
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