48 THRUSH. 



The female has neither blue nor orange about her, being wholly 

 of a brownish colour ; paler beneath, with spots of a deeper brown 

 on the head, neck, and under parts. 



Inhabits Manilla. The three last appear to form but one Species. 



29— HERMIT THRUSH. 



Turdus Eremita, Ind. Orn. i. 316. Gm. Lin. i. 833. 



Merula solitaria Philippensis, Bris. ii. 272. t. 28. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 234. 



Le solitaire des Philippines, Buf. iii. 3G4. PI. enl. 339. 



Hermit Thrush, Gen. Syn. iii. 54. Shaw's Zool. x. 281. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill one inch, brown, base 

 very pale ; round the eyes whitish ; the crown of the head yellowish 

 olive ; hindhead, upper part of the neck, and back brown ; each 

 feather having a dusky band near the tip, whieh is greenish white ; 

 sides of the head, and under parts of the body rufous white ; the 

 feathers margined with brown, and dirty rufous white tips ; lesser 

 wing coverts, and rump cinereous ; quills and tail brown, bordered 

 with grey ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands with the last, to which it seems 

 to have much affinity. 



30— BLACK-COLLARED THRUSH. 



Le Merle roux a Collier noir, Levail. Af. iii. 65. pi. 113. 



SIZE of our Blackbird ; length eight inches and a lialf. Bill 

 dusky, yellowish beneath ; top of the head, neck behird, upper part 

 of the body, and wings slaty grey, with a mixture of oclry red on 

 the wings; sides of the head, throat, forepart of the neck, eld breast 

 deeper red ochre ; breast, belly, and thighs pale dull d ; vent 



