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Wire Ait GeN. 1. OU'ZE L. 
SPE. II. ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL. 
neck, tail, vent, quills, and greater wing coverts, black, gloffed with blue, pur- 
ple, and green, in different lights: back, rump, breaft, belly, and lefs wing co- 
verts, pale rofe colour, with a few irregular dark fpots: legs pale red: claws 
This beautiful-fpecies is plentiful in various parts of the continent, but very 
rare in this kingdom. It is faid to feed chiefly on locufts, whence fome 
have named it the locuft bird. 
Pl. 58. 
Turdus rofeus. Lin. Sy. 1. p. 294. 
Le merle couleur de rofe. Brif. Orn. II. p. 250. 
The fize of this bird is about that of the ftarling: its length is eight inches. 
The bill is a little crooked and black at the point, the reft of it a pale rofe co- 
lour: eyes pale: the feathers of the head are long, foft, and form a creft: head, 
brown. ‘The female differs in being of a paler colour. 
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