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strictly, a bird of passage, but observed to change place at different 

 seasons, coming to the parts where it builds, in April, and retiring 

 in August. Is probably an Indian Species, as we have seen it in 

 drawings, where it is called Castoore, or Solitary Sparrow- 



A. — Length eight inches. The bill not very stout, black ; irides 

 hazel; plumage in general deep blue-grey; wings dusky brown; 

 tail darker than the body, even, two inches and a half long; the 

 wings reach to about the middle ; legs black. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. Seen at Cawnpore, April 

 1798. This seems a Variety of the Solitary Thrush, or a young bird. 



Colonel Montagu records one having been shot about the middle 

 of June, 1810, at Copgrove, in Yorkshire, and then in his collection ; 

 it was a female, and had two enlarged eggs within. This we believe 

 is the first time of its being noticed in this kingdom.* 



28.— PENSIVE THRUSH. 



Turdus Manillensis, Ind. Orn. i. 345. Gm. Lin. i. 833. 



Merula solitaria Manillensis, Bris. ii. 270. t. 33. 1. Id. Svo. i. 233. 



Merle solitaire de Manille, Buf. iii. 363. PI. enl. 636. male. Id. 564. 2. female. 



Pensive Hirush, Gen. Syn. iii. 53. Shaw's Zool. x. 280. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill one inch, brown ; head, fore part 

 of the neck, and back cinereous blue; the rump blue; spotted with 

 yellow on tie throat, fore part of the neck, and upper part of the 

 breast ; wing coverts marked with some spots of yellow, and others 

 of white ; the under parts of the body orange, with blue and white 

 curved sp«ts : quills and tail blackish, the last margined with rufous ; 

 legs blactisb. 



* The athor of the Compendium of Ornithology rather supposes this to be the youri"- 

 bird of the Jommon Starling. See p. 48. 



